OS X 10.10 Banner features what at WWDC?
Beginning last year, Apple started a new and ongoing naming theme for their computer operating systems, naming them after Californian landmarks. Last year’s OS X was named ‘Mavericks’ after a famous surfing location on the Californian coast.
This year, we can begin to guess at what the new OS X 10.10 will be named by looking at the banner that has just been hung at the Moscone centre in preparation for Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
The banner appears to feature ‘El Capitan’ which is a famous rock formation in Yosemite National park in Northern California. Apple has trademarked the name ‘El Cap’ but we won’t know for sure if that will be the name bestowed on the updated OS X until Monday morning!
Trademark filings by Apple that have just come to light reveal a list of other potential OS X names for the future – including Sequoia, Mojave, Sonoma, Ventura. Other possibilities discovered in previous trademark applications also include Yosemite, Redwood, Mammoth, California, Big Sur, and Pacific, Diablo, Miramar, Rincon, El Cap, Redtail, Condor, Grizzly, Monterey, Tiburon, Farallon, Skyline, Shasta, and Sierra.