What Can Apple Code-Name Their Next Release of Mac OS X?
Where do you go after Lion, the King of the Jungle? Here are some remaining members of the family Felidae, and the reasons they would be problematic:
Cougar
The cougar, or mountain lion is common throughout much of the US. Unfortunately they occasionally prey on the young children of potential Apple customers. Plus, there are the mythical “Cougars” who prey on the college-aged children of potential Apple customers.
Ocelot
The Ocelot has a cool-sounding name. Unfortunately I don’t know what the hell one looks like, and neither do you. We can’t have five thousand guys in black track jackets going off on a Wikipedia Walkabout during the keynote.
Bobcat
If you’re not thinking of a little four-wheeled bulldozer, you’re thinking of a couple of misanthropic office cats. Plus, it’s too reminiscent of Microsoft Bob.
Lynx
Sorry, but the text-based UNIX web browser already owns this one.
Serval
Again, what the hell is a serval? And it sounds too much like “server”.
Chinese Mountain Cat
No. Reminds everyone where their hardware was made.
Housecat
I actually like this one, but it’s like naming your putatively work-centered computing device a “Playbook”. Apple would never do it.
