[phinnaeus]

I don’t think that’s totally fair. The OS version number gets mentioned a lot more often than the year of a specific laptop. Furthermore it’s only made available to the general public close to the end of the year. The majority if its use is seen in a year matching the version.

I’m not saying it’s a perfect system but I can see why they prefer that then having people use iOS 25 for the majority of 2026.

[dylan604]

Now that they are referred to by the SoC like M1 M3 etc, but they definitely were known by year models. I have a 2011 MBP, a 2017 MBP, and a 2019 MBP. I couldn’t tell you what cpu it has because Intel’s naming convention is something mere mortals do not know or care about. I know the 2011 had the last Nvidia GPU, the 2017 had the shit keyboard, and the 2019 is the last intel cpu.

To say that they did not use the years sounds like some one commenting on something they are not as familiar as they’d like the rest of the internet to think they are.

Also, people refer to the OS by the cat or California location. I couldn’t tell you what year snow leopard or mavericks came out though

[makeitdouble]

> close to the end of the year.

That wasn't a consideration in the past. e.g.

"MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)", introduced on October 24th 2011

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111341

> they prefer that then having people use iOS 25 for the majority of 2026.

I'm not blind to the advantage of their new naming scheme, and honestly they could name it iOS 2077 it would be their prerogative. It just sounds off to me to equate "they're just cheating a bit" to "it makes sense".

[throw0101c]

> "MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)", introduced on October 24th 2011

Ah, yes: "macOS Late 25" just rolls of the tongue.

Perhaps instead of release/update macOS 25.2 they could go with "macOS Early 26". :)