No move by Apple is too small-scale to speak volumes of doom .
Writing for Computerworld , Bob Skelley claims the“OS X rebranding further marginalizes Mac . ”
But first , it ’s STREET CRED TIME , Y’ALLS .
I ’ve always get it on the Mac .
Some of my best supporter are Macs .
Let me put that mighty out there .
Let me start by trying to justify this crazy rant I ’m about to go on . No , do n’t get up …
But Apple ’s late annunciation that OS X has go bye - bye in favor of “ macOS ” will do nothing for the Mac except quicken its downward spiral as a interference fringe computer hardware intersection .
Which platform are you look at ? As far as “ desktop ” computing machine go , the Mac has done far better over the last five years than its competitor .
… the “ Big Three ” [ operating systems ] share the complexness of enumeration suffix when it comes to their oxygen names .
AllactualWindows release names . appear it up .
There are too many different kinds of Macs and subset of Macs available for leverage .
This is not a completely crazy argument but there ’s a cause . The MacBook Air is , most potential , on the mode out . Apple is move to an all - Retina lineup but these things do n’t necessarily encounter instantly .
Also , while there are “ too many different variety of Macs ” , how many different kinds of Windows PC are there ? Has anyone successfully list them all without operate insane ? There was that one guy wire who adjudicate but they had to put him by .
Everyone who has ever moot , or has , a Mac , recognize OS X as the Mac ’s operating system .
Dothey ? The Macalope suspect that ’s probably not true . eccentric like us certainly do , but if the Macalope had a atomic number 28 for every time he heard someone call an iPod touch and “ iTouch ” or an Apple Watch “ the iWatch ” he ’d … well , he ’d have like five bucks or something . Still , that ’s a caboodle of nickels .
I understand that Apple has watchOS , tvOS and Io in space for their Apple Watch , Apple television set and iPhone , severally . Attaching “ OS ” to the end of a product ’s name ( as an operating system appointment convention ) , is anything but representative of a caller serious about reduction .
form their OS epithet logical is anything but simplify things . Uhhhh … huh .
Bob , did someone force you to publish this patch ? Blink once for yes , twice for immediate descent from Computerworld and livery to a good star sign outside of Mount Vernon , Ohio .
Apple has operate system gens for all of its products and that ’s disconcerting .
More upsetting than Computerworld devoting over 700 words to detail how a name change indicates the Mac is doomed ?
OS X is no more confusing than Windows 10 .
Really?Not that it was a big good deal , but how many people wrongly pronounced it “ ex ” instead of “ ten ” ? Heck , the Macalope sometimes did it .
Redmond has n’t convert the name of its flagship operating organisation to microsoftOS .
No , they have n’t . It ’s always been Windows . Now , did you want Starter , Home Basic , Home Premium , Professional , Enterprise or Ultimate ?
… macOS is an appropriate name for an operating system on a once iconic personal computer Apple would prefer fade away .
Or , perchance Apple make love all its tiddler the same .
Come on . OS X as a name is about as current as the X Games . The Macalope could easily fence that changing the name shows the exact opposite , that the company cares enough to not allow the name get tired .
But he ’s not pop off to bother . Because , seriously , who cares ?
