Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Posted today at Think Secret:

Mac OS X 10.4.9, as a minor update to Tiger, is primarily designed to iron out existing kinks in the OS rather than delivering any more substantial improvements or feature changes. The update could be the last software revision to the OS until Leopard if the company’s previous version-naming conventions hold.

What naming convention would that be?

Cheetah concluded at 10.0.4.
Puma concluded at 10.1.5.
Jaguar concluded at 10.2.8.
Panther concluded at 10.3.9.

The only naming convention here is that each major and sub-version of Mac OS X is numbered in ascending numerical order. However, what Think Secret means to imply is that a version ending in .9 is the last version of a major release, and that’s complete BS. The fact that Apple has seeded 10.4.9 doesn’t necessarily mean it’s finished updating Tiger. A version number like, say, I dunno, 10.4.10 is entirely logical, consistent, and within the realm of possibility. Asserting that .9 may be the last update, and basing that assertion on an imagined naming convention where there are no sub-version numbers higher than 9, is laughable and stupid.

If indeed 10.4.9 is the last update to Tiger, it will be because of the release of Leopard, not because Apple ran out of version numbers.