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  • Weird that Apple has renamed OS X to Mac OS, my first thought opening the link to statcounter was NO WAY 8+% use an OS that was discontinued 25 years ago.

    WTF Apple?

    Opening Wikipedia it says Mac OS was introduced in 2001!?!?!!??
    WTF? That’s the year it was discontinued!!

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

    macOS (previously OS X and originally Mac OS X

    Mac OS X succeeded the classic Mac OS, the primary Macintosh operating system from 1984 to 2001.

    For fucks sake! No it’s not “classic Mac OS”, it’s Mac OS. It was never named classic. Just because Apple fucks up doesn’t change the name of the original Mac OS.
    And no OS X did not maintain the same version number for decades. It was introduced as OS X 1.0, 10 is not a version number, it’s part of the name like with OS/2 where the number is also not a version number but is part of the name, and describes something completely different, namely that it was meant as the default OS for IBM PS/2 computers.

    Sorry for the rant, but the stupidity of Apple removing the X from the name and not distinguishing properly between the original Mac OS and the new macOS is just such a piss poor decision IMO.
    For instance Mac OS does not have multitasking! But macOS does.