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.
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February 4th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Exactly!
Hearing arguments like “There won’t be any OS X after 10.9 because there’s no more numbers” is immensely lame. The cats will run out first!
Bring on 10.4.10 Apple, as a post-Leopard service release like 10.2.8 was if I recall (came out after 10.3.0), and put this silly notion to a rest.
February 4th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Difficulty grades in rock climbing started out as grades 1-6, with climbs in the fifth grade being highly technical. They started subdividing the fifth grade into decimals to further describe the difficulty level, 5.0-5.8. As technique and ability increased in human beings, they had to revise this to include 5.10, and eventually 5.11, 5.12, etc.
The application of decimals to items to delineate them is just that, a delineation. Logic therefore does not preclude the use of mathematically illogical decimals.
–chuck
June 21st, 2007 at 7:21 pm
[...] Today Apple released a logically-named update to Mac OS X, which bears the version number 10.4.10. Wow! Who would have thought? What minimally intelligent person said sometime in the past that, contrary to the stupid assertions of Think Secret and the apparently brainless people who inhabit forums and comment threads on the 1n+@rw3b!!11!! d00dz, version numbering schemes don’t stop at .9, nor do they roll over like a gas pump? Oh, that’s right, I did. [...]