Jaguar: Mac OS X 10.What?

by , 11:00 AM EDT, May 13th, 2002

During our coverage of Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, we referred to Jaguar as Mac OS X 10.2. In Apple's literature, it was being called just "Jaguar," or, to quote from Apple's press release, "the next major version of Mac® OS X, code-named 'Jaguar.'" After several reports from TMO, in which we referred to Jaguar as "Mac OS X 10.2," we received a note from one of our sources within Apple chiding us for doing so.

Apple never once used the moniker "10.2" to refer to Jaguar during the entire event, according to our unofficial note, which leaves the official name of Jaguar as just "Jaguar." After some checking about, it turns out that our source is also quite correct, and we apologize for any confusion our name dropping may have caused. Jaguar is set to be released at the end of this summer.

The Mac Observer Spin:

Which begs the question "What will Apple be calling Jaguar?" This might be quickly followed by "What's in a name?" If it is 10.2, the company will likely not charge for it. Apple has traditionally charged for .5 releases, however, so the name of this release could indeed have relevance to all of us. It will be interesting to see.