Traffic from OS X 10.10 systems grows immediately after Mavericks launch

Nov 4, 2013 12:57 GMT  ·  By

A new version of Apple’s desktop operating system is already in the works in Cupertino, California, just two weeks after the official release of OS X Mavericks.

The confirmation comes from traffic logs recorded by various sites, including AppleInsider, which claims that hits from OS X 10.10 computers have increased in numbers considerably, following the launch of OS X 10.9 last month.

This is usual behavior for Apple, as the company refreshes its desktop OS on an annual basis, making it imperative that engineers go back to work as soon as the latest version has been released.

Not only do these engineers have to keep their eyes peeled for any bugs emerging in the current version, but they also have to start up work on the next-generation release, if Apple wants to keep its pace of innovation, if not speed it up even.

What’s more is that Apple has just lost a key executive from its iOS software engineering team, which will undoubtedly deal a blow to the development schedule, as the company constantly reassigns engineers who specialize in both iOS and OS X on different tasks, when needed.

However, OS X 10.10 – which would be pronounced “OS ten, ten point ten” – might actually make the jump to OS 11, commercially.

Apple may have several reasons to keep the current version numbering intact, including its well-known veil of secrecy, as well as consistency for various development purposes.

With this year’s Mac OS refresh, Apple has also switched the nomenclature from felines to Californian locations. OS X 10.9 is called Mavericks, and there are already some polls on the web discussing what the next version will be called.