• Revan343@lemmy.ca
      10·
      2 days ago

      Apple’s preferred spelling is that macOS and iOS not be capitalized, much like xkcd. But yeah, now that you mention it, that just says ‘ios’.

      Darn lazy memers

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        It was always pretty humorous to me that Microsoft named its early-2000s mobile operating system “Windows Compact Edition” and abbreviated it (officially) as “WinCE”. The capitalization really mattered in this case.

    • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 days ago

      I had the same question. The author didn’t seem to employ the scientific rigor to call things by their correct names. It’s as if they’re treating it like spelling in a meme.

    • yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 days ago

      iOS is lowercase for two reasons:

      • Naming consistency. Since they are already name it iPhone, might as well name the OS the same way.
      • The name was already in use. This may have not been as significant for choosing the name of Apple’s OS, but when the first iPhone released, Cisco IOS was already a family of operating systems for routers and network switches, and the Wii had already released a few months before, and they also called the console’s operating system(s) as IOS.