Because I have a very low opinion of most marketing people that seems plausible to me, but Mac and Windows seem to have such wildly different markets that I think it is unlikely.
Seriously. I can't imagine anyone whose decision between a Mac and a Windows PC is a complete dead tie, except for Mac OS being 11 compared to Windows' lowly 10.
On a positive note at least everyone has got over this allergy to incrementing versions. Hopefully they’ll get over the allergy of anything but rolling releases next so we can have some stability and lifecycle control back again.
We joke but these are marketing names intended to make a big deal of a large batch of features. With today's continuous delivery (ie. incremental upgrades) this is no longer needed, at least not for technical reasons. But from a marketing perspective, it provides the opportunity to generate buzz in the news with "OMG best version yet"-style announcements.
AlexandrB|4 years ago
Edit: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/191279-why-is-it-calle...
JohnTHaller|4 years ago
AnIdiotOnTheNet|4 years ago
delecti|4 years ago
hughrr|4 years ago
alexvoda|4 years ago
It happened with a lot of other software (Firefox vs Chrome is just one example).
Version number envy?
delta1|4 years ago
athenot|4 years ago
We joke but these are marketing names intended to make a big deal of a large batch of features. With today's continuous delivery (ie. incremental upgrades) this is no longer needed, at least not for technical reasons. But from a marketing perspective, it provides the opportunity to generate buzz in the news with "OMG best version yet"-style announcements.
lostmsu|4 years ago
Razengan|4 years ago