Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4347542-20130212224726/@comment-4347542-20130710165618

8100DSTAR wrote:

GotoGO - TO489 wrote: The only thing that apple said during the WWDC was that iOS 7 and Mac OS X Mavericks will be released this fall and I remember that iOS 6 was released somewhere in the middle of september Ok, I haven't quite got this- is OSX Mavericks the next in line of OSX? As in, Panther, Leopard, Tiger, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks? Or is it a minor-ish OS and not part of the OSX series? Cos it doesn't seem to follow the previous names... Yea OSX Mavericks will be 10.9, like Mountain Lion was 10.8 and Lion was 10.7 etc...

They're switching the names to California-related stuff, Mavericks is a surfing location in California with a unique "Mavericks" wave system.