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Apple’s “crack marketing team” has now named ten versions of macOS, from Mavericks to Ventura. Here’s where they all are, whether they came with a photo of a sand dune or a mountain range.
Incredibly, the last OS X named after a type of cat was ten years ago. In 2013, the current OS X Mountain Lion was replaced by OS X Mavericks, named after the surfing area of California.
Since then, we’ve gone through nine more iterations of the Mac operating system. All were named after regions in California, and as of 2016 they were all called macOS instead of OS X.
Watch them all
You can see all ten places whose OS X and macOS versions have been named in this Apple Maps guide, but there are a few things you need to know first.
More importantly, these are the named locations, and it’s not necessarily the same one where the Apple wallpaper photographs were taken. From Mavericks to Catalina, Apple has commissioned gorgeous photography for every version of the operating system, but gorgeous doesn’t equal precision.
Apple also never says where its images were taken, so there’s always room for doubt. And the only really questionable example is with macOS Mojave from 2018.
Rather than being shot in the Mojave Desert, it looks like Apple’s Sand Dunes image was really taken in Death Valley. You can understand why Craig Federighi may have steered the marketing team away from “macOS Death Valley”.
Then for Big Sur, Monterey, and now Ventura, photography was replaced by rather abstract illustrations.
Follow the journey of the marketing team
Thanks to the new multistop functionality, you will also be able to plan a route that will take you to each of them. Just like three friends did when they decided to recreate Apple’s wallpaper photography.