Mac OS X Lion – Apple shows new Mac OS Oct. 20
Apple Inc. will show a new version of the operating system Mac OS X on October 20. On this day, Apple will hold a press event at its headquarters in California, wrote tehnoblog TechCrunch.
It is expected that the new “Operating System” for the Mac will be called Mac OS X Lion (Leo). Image of this animal is placed on the invitation to the presentation.
In this case, in the invitation Apple notes that the event will be announced updates for the Mac, but you’ll also see update Mac OS X. Neither the name nor the serial number of versions of “OSes” are not called. However, probably, the new Mac OS X will receive a serial number of 10.7.
Note that Apple uses in the title for Mac OS names of the representatives of the cat family. Thus, the very first version of Mac OS X 10.0 called Cheetah (Cheetah), and the last – Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard (Snow Leopard).
Snow Leopard was introduced by Apple in June 2009. However, the sale of the OS came only in late August. Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 costing owners a previous version 10.5 Leopard to $ 29.
On the surface, that nickname could easily be discounted as just a random big cat Apple hasn’t used yet. But this is Apple, they don’t do “random”. There are a few big cats left that Apple could have chosen from — Lynx, Cougar (har har), and even Clouded Leopard come to mind — but they’re going with Lion, the kind of the jungle. To me, this means they intend this version of OS X to be big.
You might think that’s obvious, but consider OS X 10.6, which they named “Snow Leopard” — an extension of 10.5 “Leopard” — rather than giving it it’s own completely new big cat name. (Technically, snow leopards are from a different genus than leopards, but most people don’t realize that.) And in fact, Snow Leopard wasn’t all that different from Leopard other than it was faster and had a much smaller footprint. And Apple wasn’t afraid to say as much when they unveiled the OS in June 2009.
But OS X 10.7 Lion could be a completely revamped OS X, including a long-awaited interface change. The computing world is shifting into the age of mobile, and iOS is now seen as Apple’s major operating system. Perhaps Mac OS X Lion will represent the beginning of a unification between OS X and iOS. And if Apple is giving it the Lion moniker, which they won’t be able to top, perhaps they mean this to be last version of OS X? (Though they do say “next” version of Mac OS X and not “last”.)
As we noted back in June, the footprint of OS X 10.7 is already out there. We see it everyday in the TechCrunch logs, undoubtedly from Apple’s HQ where it’s being worked on. In the past few months, the number of visits by machines running OS X 10.7 has continued to increase.
A Lion approaches.
