Adam Kos Microsoft has its Windows marked with just a simple number, while Apple tries to personalize its desktop operating system more. It doesn't want us to call it macOS 12, it wants us to call it Monterey, before that Big Sur, Catalina, etc. So the choice of name is quite important because it will be inflected all over the world. And now it's Mammoth's turn.
Until OS X 10.8, Apple named its desktop systems felines, from OS X 10.9 these are important locations of the American California, i.e. the state located on the west coast of the USA and the state in which Apple is headquartered. And since it is the third largest state in the United States of America by area, it definitely has a lot to choose from. So far, we've come across nine places the company has named its systems. These are the following:
- OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- macOS 10.12Sierra
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- macOS 10.14 Mojave
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
- macOS 11 Big Sur
- macOS 12 Monterey
The trademark reveals the designation
Every year there is speculation as to what the next Mac system will be named. Of course, nothing is predetermined, but there is definitely something to choose from. In fact, Apple has its trademarks displayed in advance for any designation, while doing so through its secret companies, to make the searching job a little more difficult for everyone and the official designation does not escape before the presentation itself.
macOS Monterey
E.g. Yosemite Research LLC owned the trademarks for "Yosemite" and "Monterey". And as you can see above, both of these names have been realized in the naming of macOS 10.10 and 12. However, each mark has a certain validity, after which it can be bought by another company and used, if the previous owner did not do so. And it was Mamut who was threatened that someone else would jump after him. Yosemite Research LLC has therefore extended the claim to this name, which means that we may still see this designation in the case of the following desktop system.
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macOS 13 Mammoth, Rincon or Skyline
However, Mammoth here does not refer to an extinct genus from the family of elephants and the order of octopuses, which inhabited northern, central and western Europe, North America and northern Asia during the Ice Age. This is the Mammoth Lakes area in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which is a popular ski area in California. Apart from the aforementioned, however, we could also expect the designation Rincon or Skyline.
The first is a popular surfing area in Southern California (which we already had in the form of Mavericks) and the second most likely refers to Skyline Boulevard, a boulevard that follows the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains located on the Pacific coast. We will certainly find out how Apple will come up with it in June at WWDC22, where the company will present its new operating systems. Apart from that, iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 will of course also arrive for Mac computers.
