what, the yearly release naming scheme? not sure why you find it so ridiculous, i think it makes a lot of sense as opposed to having a differeent release number for every platform. it’s also not that unusual, lots of software is named by the date.
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lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
The announcement also marks a change in how Apple signifies its major updates to iOS. Under the previous marketing scheme, this year’s major release would have been iOS 19 — the direct follow-up to iOS 18. But now, Apple’s big iOS updates will be numbered based on the year following their introduction
Well that’s interesting. I was certain The Verge was trying to be funny. But this tracks, now Apple has Biggest Number™.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Though naming it by the following year instead of the release year is clearly a marketing move.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
okay ¯_(ツ)_/¯
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I suppose it makes sense for Apple, seeing as a significant chunk of their userbase are complete fucking morons.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
jfc relax. it’s a number.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Versioning exists for a reason. This shit is what happens when marketing and sales retards get authority over developers.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Samsung has been doing that with their Galaxy for a while.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yes, but Samsung went from S10 to S20 -> 21 -> 22, etc. That move made sense.
iOS 18 -> iOS26 makes absolutely no sense.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
iOS 18 > 26 doesn’t make sense, but from 26 onwards it’s not a problem.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Can’t wait for the release of CUPS 26…
🙄🙄
MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s not a matter of biggest number, it’s a matter of consistency.
They have five operating systems, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS.
So currently we have macOS 15, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11 & visionOS 2. That’s absolute confusion. Do I have the latest version? Dropping support for an older version, how many years ago was that?
A version number should convey useful information, and the year it was released is useful information. Especially when major updates come every year.
ilega_dh@feddit.nl 4 days ago
I was just discussing this with a friend, I have no clue these days what iOS or macOS version is the latest. I guess this does help but it feels like a Windows 8 to 10 jump in steroids
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
what would you have them do? anything else would be just as arbitrary.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
That jump at least had a reason, as a bunch of older software checked if they were running on windows 95 or 98 by checking for “windows 9”.
And what it actually feels like is the jump from windows 3.1 to 95. Because it’s literally the same one.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I don’t disagree with you on principle, but I still think the implementation is fucking bonkers.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 4 days ago
How would you prefer they handle it?
Just to look at macOS version history,
The first public release was “Mac OS X 10.0”, this continued until “Mac OS X 10.7 Lion”. The “big cat” became part of the marketing name because the OS & version were a mouthful and throwing numbers around wasn’t helpful.
We drop the “Mac” next year, then switch to mountains, but it’s not long before we reach, “OS X 10.10” aka “OS ten ten ten”.
Well it wasn’t long before we simplified further and just said “macOS”, but then took a while before we dropped the “10”. Now we just get “macOS 15 Sequoia”.
For nearly 18 years the Mac operating system had an unnecessary “10” that conveyed zero information.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Yeah, I remember when Mac OS X came out. It was a pretty significant improvement from Mac OS 9 (I grew up on System 7/Mac OS 8, dicked around a bit with 9). Unfortunately, they beat that horse until it lost all meaning, and then dragged the corpse until there was nothing left. It was ridiculous 10 years in (looking at you, Microsoft), and was borderline meme status when they finally dropped the OSX branding altogether.
They were doing fine once they dropped “10”. Major version updates have a major version number. It was fixed. Done. Why fix what isn’t broken? Just because the version numbers of your various operating systems don’t match, doesn’t mean it’s “broken”. They’re different operating systems. Versioning has lost all meaning at this point. Shit, even Windows 11 still uses NT kernel 10. And before NT Kernel 10? It was 6.3.
What the fuck even is proper versioning anymore.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Major version numbers are used when stuff changes, and especially when shit breaks. Can the latest OS X 10 run the same software and on the same hardware as the first OS X 10? If not, increase the major number.