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The name is meaningless. It’s just marketing; every version is named for another location across California. Before that they were named for big cats.

Each version has a number that is sequential though. I think it’s just an effect of sheer quantity. They release a new version every year. It’s hard to keep track.



I wish they’d just get iOS, the iPhone, and macOS or whatever it is called now all the same. Today I should be running iOS 15 on an iPhone 15 talking to macOS 15.


Why? They're different operating systems with different backgrounds.


Because numerical consistency is nice.

(It's already happened before where Windows jumps versions for various reasons, but one is to not sound too far behind other OSes.)




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