Earlier today, Apple unveiled the beginnings of its efforts for Earth Day 2016, and with it came an updated webpage that aims to answer all sorts of questions about Apple and its focus on the environment. “Years of use, which are based on first owners, are assumed to be four years for MacOS and tvOS devices and three years for iOS and watchOS devices”, the company writes. Apple uses the annual event to showcase its new products, as well as interact with developers in workshops.
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While nobody can tell for sure when this change could take place, everyone expects more info to be shared at WWDC in June, when Apple will share more information on its plans for its platforms.
Last month, an OS X 10.11.4 framework was found with the macOS naming scheme, which fueled speculation that the next major update to Apple’s desktop operating system would include a naming rebrand.
Also, it’s unclear for now whether Apple will stick to the lowercase formatting of its other operating systems: iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. MacOS sounds like a logical progression of the operating system nomenclature.
Some of Apple’s newer products have very clear branding.
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Apple, in fact, used to use the name MacOS way back till the late 90’s. It’s since been changed to OS X, but an archived version of the page is still viewable. The X stands for the Roman numeral 10 and there have been 12 iterations of the OS X operating system ranging from Cheetah in 2001 to El Capitan in 2015.
