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Why 10.5?
Authored by: Jay on May 07, '02 11:39:36AM

I agree, it is a blatant marketing gimmick. However, don't you think Apple is afraid of 11? I think they might slow down the numbering to avoid having to deal with OS XI or 11 or whatever they're going to call it.



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Why 8.5?
Authored by: robg on May 07, '02 12:06:03PM

They've done it before. 8.1 -> 8.5, with nothing in between. The entire positioning of that page is that Jaguar is NOT 10.2. They call it the "next major upgrade" to OS X. Major upgrades have historically been more than .1 increments. And yes, it's arbitrary, but I don't think there's any argument that there's more content added from 10.1.4 -> Jaguar than there was from 10.0.4 -> 10.1.

As for what to do about eleven ... my personal guess is that OS X will start to become known as "OS ex" instead of "OS ten" and then "OS ex version 11" makes some degree of sense. They clearly have a brand here with the X, and it wouldn't make much sense to move away from it too quickly.

In short, who the hell knows ... I'm just along for the ride, and it's been interesting so far! ;-)

-rob.



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