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Comment by coliveira | Hacker News Reader

OS X (the name) is gone for a while, it was replaced by macOS. The numbering change now is inconsequential.

Most people probably don't even refer to the macOS versions by number but by codename.

Sure, but version names are hard to order: was Catalina before or after X? who will remember? (maybe if it at least was like Ubuntu with names following alphabetic order)

Nit: Big Sur is a marketing name, not a codename. Apple has their own names for this things ;)

yeah , like look at iPad OS.. its now iPadOS 14 :|

Yes, they have spread the theme across all of their OSs but they are still distinct members of a family. It looks like they brought some of the best new features from iPad to the Mac and I see they are bringing sidebars from the Mac to iPad. Makes sense.

macOS, not MacOS.

At least they didn't call it "MAC", haha

Interestingly in iOS 14 the feature that lets you change your MAC address labels it as your "Wi-Fi Address".

Thanks, I always forget that Apple uses reverse capitalization.

In my country, the old school papers use initial capital letter, then lowercase, regardless of name.

I.e., IBM becomes Ibm, IKEA would be Ikea, and macOS would become Macos.

The reasoning is that companies shouldn’t be able to dictate flow and attention in an article by manipulating capitalization in brand names.

(Just an anecdote, obviously not applicable to comments here)

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