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[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 16, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2016-9-17 01:33 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Do we have any guidance from Apple on what they want people to do?
> 
> They still list previous OS releases back to Lion in the App Store as "OS X", if that helps you.


On Sep 16, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> 
> I don't think the change was retroactive
> 
> (for example, Apple Store lists Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard )

You're right, I'm wrong. I was trying to be lazy and not have to remember which name to use for which version, but a friend of mine working at Apple confirmed that one should refer to the OS by its correct historical name. I found many examples of Apple not doing that, but that's wrong too. Correct usage is:

- macOS 10.12
- Mac OS X 10.5 or later
- OS X 10.9 or earlier

When referring to the OS generically without a version number, one should say "the Mac operating system" (not abbreviating "operating system" to "OS"); that seems cumbersome to me so I'll probably try to always use a version number.

The marketing name changed to "OS X" in 10.7 (even though they didn't change it in "About This Mac" until 10.8).