Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems

theverge.com

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>However, the numbers will apparently align with the year after the one the update is actually released in, similar to cars. That means that the next big iOS update will be iOS 26 instead of iOS 19. Bloomberg says that other upcoming name changes include iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26.

That's confusing.

The year of release makes perfect sense.

If the article is true, this seems like one of those great ideas that somehow gets screwed up in a bizarrely simple way.

The new OS releases drop just before the start of the fourth quarter each year, so the alternative is to have users wondering why they are still running last year's version of the OS for the first three quarters of the next year.

I don't think that's the alternative. It's just the release year.

Nobody thought less of Windows 95 because it was released later in 95.

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