Apple rebranding Mac OS X to MacOS?

“Following the naming conventions of iOS, watchOS and tvOS, Apple’s Mac operating system could soon return to the name ‘macOS,’ if code spotted in the latest release of El Capitan is to be believed,” AppleInsider reports.

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“The framework can be found in OS X 10.11.4 at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FlightUtilities.framework and was later independently verified by MacMagazine, which speculated that the next release could be ‘macOS 11’ instead of OS X 10.12,” AppleInsider reports. “Of course, a rebranding as ‘macOS’ would be something of a back-to-the-future move for Apple — its operating system was known for years as Mac OS, even retaining the name as Mac OS X throughout its releases up until recently. Starting in 2012, Apple dropped the name Mac from its operating system branding, simplifying it to OS X.”

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