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Tigger (Mac OS X 10.4) Announced,
Disney Lawyers on Alert
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"Woo
hoo, Long-ears, whaddaya know! I'm finally famoulishush. They've gone
and done named a whole operatin' sythtem after me. Hoo-HOOO! Now, if
I only rememberized what an 'operatin' system' was, it might mean
sumptin'."
In a press release last week, Apple confirmed long-standing rumors
that it's next OS would be named after Tigger, the popular
Winnie-the-Pooh character. I just wanted to remind you that your
heard it here first (kinda):
Rumors that Disney is considering replacing Michael Eisner with
Steve Jobs could vastly reduce complications from Apple naming 10.4
Tigger while also bringing Pixar back into the Disney camp.
Now other people are getting into the act. Here are a couple of
pretenders:
Matthew Rothenberg off eWeek claims
that 10.2 Server was code-named Tigger but never made it to the
public, possibly due to Disneyitis.
VersionTracker shows someone who has a
utility named Tigger (at least until someone at Disney reads
this article).
And
check out this photoshopped
OS X box created by Petra Hall [reduced image on
left]. (Thanks, Mike.)
Now that we know 10.4 is Tigger, and with a new Garfield movie
coming out, the logical choice for 10.5 will be Garfield.
Given the frequency of these OS updates and the fact that there is
no upgrade discount for previous version owners, maybe 10.5 should be
named "Burglar." Or maybe "Burgular." Or maybe "Putz in Boots." Or
"Scratch Fever." Or "Mandu."
Or maybe put in a bright yellow box, bundle it with a hard hat,
and just call it "CAT." Why pussyfoot around?
iPods that never passed beta or focus groups, 09.13.
"What most Apple fans don't realize is that there were a few iPod variants that never made it out of beta testing and the focus group stage."
Mac of the Day: 'Yikes!' Power Mac G4, Aug. 1999 - The only Power Mac G4 with PCI graphics was built on a modified G3 motherboard.
Group of the Day: SuperMacs is for those using Umax SuperMac clones.
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"Woo
hoo, Long-ears, whaddaya know! I'm finally famoulishush. They've gone
and done named a whole operatin' sythtem after me. Hoo-HOOO! Now, if
I only rememberized what an 'operatin' system' was, it might mean
sumptin'."