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Just use years. You are already releasing shit yearly. Name it macOS 22.

These places mean nothing to me.

The strength of the California brand across the globe is crazy good. It’s all a bit of marketing.

I think you overestimate the knowledge most people have of California. I've been to Cali a bunch of times and none of the names they picked mean anything to me except Big Sur, but that's pretty obscure. I wouldn't expect anyone around me to know what or where it is unless they happened to be really big into the tech scene.

US tech firms have a long history of using US place names as code names for operating system releases. Windows 95 was Chicago, if I recall correctly.

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