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During this summer, I realized that Apple’s naming of versions seems a tad odd…

Background

We were sitting around a table in the beautiful Swedish archipelago, having a drink and chatting a little. Big men talk about big guns, right? So, we were discussing different German tank models. Not being just a man, but a computer geek as well, it hit me that the name of German tanks are the same as the name of OS X versions.

Another Mac Gamer HQ favorite, Company of Heroes 2 is the sequel to the original Company of Heroes, released over a decade ago. The sequel takes you directly onto the Eastern Front of WWII for a close-up look at the vagaries of the war you’re waging. No TIMEWAITs on Mac OS X. Normally, when a TCP connection is closed, the socket on the side where close is called first is left in the TIMEWAIT state. When one of the peers is a Mac OS X (Lion) machine, no TIMEWAIT is listed by netstat -an on the Mac if close is called first on the Mac side. Works like a charm — I've been upgrading git all the time using this package and never had the slightest problem. My only issue is that it lags slightly behind the latest & greatest supported git package — it's really a pity it's not kept up-to-date with, say, the Linux version. Mac OS X Apple (another wise move) has modified the way that it reads/treats the different partitions in the EFI, something that currently VirtualBox cannot handle (as of 5.2.2). But, there is a solution.

Names of tanks and operating system versions

When I got back online, I did a quick search, and Internet being what it is, naturally I hadn’t been the only one thinking about it. In German armored vehicles and Apple Mac OS X all these are listed, but please allow me to present a short list:

Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah
Tank: Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard (Gepard in German means Cheetah in English)
Mac OS X 10.1 Puma
Tank: Sd.Kfz. 234/2 “Puma”
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
Tanks: Jaguar 1 and Jaguar 2
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
Tank: Panther
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Tanks: Tiger 1 and Tiger 2
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Tanks: Leopard 1 and Leopard 2
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Haven’t found the corresponding tank yet, but I’m sure it exists… 🙂

Really

I’m really not sure where all this comes from, and it might just be coincidence – trust me, I’m not implying that Apple is some kind of Neo-Nazi movement in disguise (thinking about when especially the Tiger tank was mostly active). And sure, I can see why you would like to name something after great mighty cats.

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But, what I really think, is that if you’re going to name a product line of any kind, don’t you just stop a moment to think, to contemplate:

a) Have anyone else used this naming convention?

b) Could there be any kind of negative connection?

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Maybe my guess for the next iPhone to be named iPhone 3G SS isn’t so far off after all… 😉