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Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10)

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In article <53968393$0$11097$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, Philip Shaw
<jnufcvyvuc@tznvy.pbz> wrote:
> On 2014-06-04, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> > In article <040620140117334789%nospam@ny.more>, M-M <nospam@ny.more>
> > wrote:
> >> In article <030620141846385164%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name
> >> <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Yosemite is known around the world. Not by everyone, of course,
> >> > > but plenty of people will know exactly how to pronounce it.
> >> > 
> >> > The current version is much different ... Mav-ricks or
> >> > Mav-er-icks or Ma-ver-icks.  ;-)
> >> 
> >> Who refers to the OS by the name anyhow? It's always been (to me at
> >> least) Ten-eight, ten-nine, etc.
> >> 
> >> I could never see the point in the animals, or the current
> >> nomenclature for that matter. Which came first- lion or panther? I
> >> think Snow Leopard was later but I have no idea what the number
> >> was.
> >
> > Exactly. The names are a pointless and useless marketing gimmick
> > that mean nothing to anyone. Using them is one of the sillier
> > decisions made by Apple.
> 
> The names make searching for informaiton easier - search engines tend
> to give more junk results if you search by version number. 

They shouldn't do if the search engine is used properly with quote
marks enclosing the phrase, "mac os x 10.9".

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Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) M-M <nospam@ny.more> - 2014-06-04 01:17 -0400
  Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-04 19:00 +1200
    Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-04 15:52 +0000
    Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Philip Shaw <jnufcvyvuc@tznvy.pbz> - 2014-06-10 04:03 +0000
      Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-10 16:06 +1200
      Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2014-06-10 10:35 -0500
        Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-06-10 16:06 -0400
          Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2014-06-10 15:47 -0500
            Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-11 09:38 +1200
          Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-11 09:22 +1200
            Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-06-10 22:57 +0000
              Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-11 13:18 +1200
            Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-06-10 16:24 -0700
              Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-06-10 16:28 -0700
                Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2014-06-10 18:54 -0600
                Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-06-10 20:40 -0700
                Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-11 13:17 +1200
              Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-11 02:52 +0000
        Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-11 09:20 +1200
          Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-06-11 12:23 +1200
  Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-04 15:50 +0000
    Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-06-04 08:58 -0700
      Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-06-04 15:09 -0400
        Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-04 20:14 +0000
          Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-06-04 19:26 -0700
        Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-05 09:53 +1200
  Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-05 04:05 +0000
    Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-05 05:19 +0000
      Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Darrin "Doc" O'Leary  <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> - 2014-06-05 18:13 +0000
        Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-06 09:25 +1200
          Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-06-05 17:06 -0700
            Re: Yosemite (OS X 10.10) Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-06 13:03 +1200

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