> But did Mojave come before or after Sierra?
Idk, but it doesn’t matter. If you need to know which version came before or after just compare the version numbers instead. The human names are not meant for that.
Idk, but it doesn’t matter. If you need to know which version came before or after just compare the version numbers instead. The human names are not meant for that.
That's just like, your opinion.
Even operating systems that try to follow that idea are not fully able to do it.
For example, Ubuntu has been using alphabetically ordered names ever since version 5.10, which was released in October 2005.
But sooner or later they have to wrap. And they already did that once.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
So now, for someone on the outside who tries to apply this idea that names should encode release order, we still can't tell, which of the following was released first:
- Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat
or
- Ubuntu Lunar Lobster
Well, if all we know about Ubuntu is that the names are alphabetically sorted then we might think that Lunar Lobster came before Maverick Meerkat. But Ubuntu Lunar Lobster is the upcoming version 23.04. Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat was version 10.10, released all the way back in October 2010.
And so my point is, if you want to compare version release dates. Just look at the version numbers.
It is not sensible to claim that somehow the names have to be in alphabetical order.
Do you use alphabetical order for the hostnames of your computers?
Do you name your children in alphabetical order?
Maybe you do. But not everyone will, and that's perfectly fine.
Frankly, that's not a problem. They have 26 letters to go through, so that's 13 years.
13 years is a geological age in computing. By that point the previous product has been deprecated for so long it's basically a museum piece and nobody can spot it in the wild.
Microsoft Windows XP was released to retail on October 25, 2001.
Extended support for Microsoft Windows XP ended on April 8, 2014.
~13 years after its release
Back then, in 2014, 13 years after its release, Windows XP still had a big market share according to for example this page from 2014 https://sourcedigit.com/6553-windows-xp-will-die-april-8-201...
Regardless. All I am saying is, there is no reason to try and insist that marketing name should encode version release date.
If you want to compare versions, use the version numbers and compare those. That's what the version numbers are for.
If you had more than 20 children, you would clearly want some logic in naming. People often apply that to twins for example.
Anyway, that applies better to "more than a few" groups; Ubuntu did well because they release many versions, and you really rarely need to check against versions from 13 years ago with that release speed. Microsoft didn't need it for Windows because they only had 4 or 5 versions in 20 years.
I mean even when Apple uses sequential, numerical names you can't always answer the question of which came first: the iPhone 8 and iPhone X (10) were announced ~simultaneously! And there wasn't even a 9!
My point is it really doesn't matter which big cat or California landmark came first. It's trivial to find out if you want to, but it's not terribly important to encode that in the name you're using to identify your product.
But perhaps they should adopt a chicken-egg naming scheme.
You don't need to know that. It does not matter.
These human names are for marketing. They have no significance other than that.
When a vendor says "we are dropping support for MacOS High Sierra and earlier" then it does matter.
Does that include Big Sur? Catalina? Mavericks ? One has to go and look up the corresponding version numbers to determine that.
Here are some random examples taken from some of the software that I use on my systems.
JetBrains CLion system requirements:
> macOS 10.14 or later
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/installation-guide.html
System requirements for using Slack
> MacOS OS X 10.15 or above
https://slack.com/help/articles/115002037526-System-requirem...
Davinci Resolve 18 Tech Specs
> Mac 10.15 Catalina or later.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/tec...
Mac Compatibility with Live – Live 11 – Live Universal build
> Apple Silicon: macOS 11.6.6 Big Sur through macOS 13 Ventura
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001261150-Mac-...