How do you know which Windows came first: XP, ME, Vista, 98, 10?

I mean even when Apple uses sequential, numerical names you can't always answer the question of which came first: the iPhone 8 and iPhone X (10) were announced ~simultaneously! And there wasn't even a 9!

My point is it really doesn't matter which big cat or California landmark came first. It's trivial to find out if you want to, but it's not terribly important to encode that in the name you're using to identify your product.

To be fair Microsoft have moved some number for the last 4 releases of Windows

Well, 98 is higher than 10.

But perhaps they should adopt a chicken-egg naming scheme.

> How do you know which cat or geological feature corresponds to which version number?

You don't need to know that. It does not matter.

These human names are for marketing. They have no significance other than that.

> You don't need to know that. It does not matter.

When a vendor says "we are dropping support for MacOS High Sierra and earlier" then it does matter.

Every software vendor of any significant size knows to use version numbers of macOS, not just marketing names of macOS, when communicating that kind of information.

Here are some random examples taken from some of the software that I use on my systems.

JetBrains CLion system requirements:

> macOS 10.14 or later

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/installation-guide.html

System requirements for using Slack

> MacOS OS X 10.15 or above

https://slack.com/help/articles/115002037526-System-requirem...

Davinci Resolve 18 Tech Specs

> Mac 10.15 Catalina or later.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/tec...

Mac Compatibility with Live – Live 11 – Live Universal build

> Apple Silicon: macOS 11.6.6 Big Sur through macOS 13 Ventura

https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001261150-Mac-...

Apple? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201260

Wikipedia? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_version_history#Releas...