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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by mattl on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @11:33PM (#44188085)
Related. Apple is turning into Sony with their naming of stuff.

In my house I have Apple branded hardware running:

Mac OS

Mac OS X Server

Mac OS X

OS X

macOS

iOS

iPad OS

tvOS

watchOS

homeOS

audioOS

And now I’ll have the strange honor of having two Macs, one running Mac OS X Server 1.23 and one running macOS 26.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by AStonesThrow on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:05AM (#44188235)
What, no A/UX or Mach?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

Hey, you should pick up some carrier-grade Cisco routers and switches, and run IOS to tie 'em all together!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by scarface_74 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:01AM (#44188212)
Why is naming an OS differently when it is actually a different OS with shared features?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by mattl on Thursday June 05, 2025 @12:12AM (#44188256)
What are the differences between OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra?
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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by scarface_74 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @01:04AM (#44188456)
You listed a bunch of OS’s for other hardware.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by mattl on Thursday June 05, 2025 @01:31AM (#44188565)
iPads used to run iOS now they run on iPadOS.

It just feels so far from Steve Jobs 2x2 grid of products.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by scarface_74 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @08:48AM (#44191163)
Because the iPad has always had a different gesture set than the iPhone.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the most overengineered tool everyone uses... by Someone on Thursday June 05, 2025 @01:53AM (#44188682)
That’s spanning decades. The current lineup is highly consistent: macOS, iPadOS (I don’t think Apple uses a space here), tvOS, watchOS, audioOS all use product categoryOS.

homeOS doesn’t exist yet for the public, does it?

The only outlier is iOS, which should have been called phoneOS or iPhoneOS.

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