That jump at least had a reason, as a bunch of older software checked if they were running on windows 95 or 98 by checking for "windows 9".
And what it actually feels like is the jump from windows 3.1 to 95. Because it's literally the same one.

Win 10 and 11 do also use something like this, though it's more hidden as it's the update numbers - they were yearmonth (1507, 1709) and are now yearhalfofyear - 20H1, 21H2.

Major version numbers are used when stuff changes, and especially when shit breaks. Can the latest OS X 10 run the same software and on the same hardware as the first OS X 10? If not, increase the major number.

What the hell are they thinking

Guess this means Apple has run out of ideas on how to make iPhone better.

What can we do to distract attention away from the fact that we don't have any decent new features?

• "Rename the business unit so we can print new letterheads and business cards?" Our customer don't work here, sir. "Dammit!"
• "Release a new color that nobody wants? How about a light blue that is so close to the regular silver no one can tell?" We did that last year, sir. "Dammit!"
• "Oh, I know: Repeat the year 2000 mistake by naming our OS versions after the current year using only 2 digits. That will never bite us in the ass in the future." Brilliant, sir.

Trick question: null

Honestly, it looks kind of terrible to me. Not to mention how unreadable text is since there's apparently no guaranteed contrast with black text due to the transparent backgrounds. I feel like I'm going crazy with all the random articles praising it.

Google themselves don't really follow material all that closely over their entire product line.

Android 6 was basically the peak of the UI, IMO, the icons were very consistent and nice early material.

In later versions they shrank the icons and stuffed them into circles and started using a horrible color scheme, then they killed blobmoji and started outright copying Apple's hideous emojis with that awful gradient and pseudo-skeumorphic visuals.

I mean... look, I'm genuinely not trying to be a sour asshole, but why did we need this? How is this furthering the development of smartphone tech? It's, like... sure, pretty graphics are nice, but do we really need ray-tracing on our phones? (I know it's not ray-tracing, but you get my point)

Hey, it's aqua! We've come full circle!

These guys spend a billion dollars every couple years to invent the lock screen again

I never understood products that use the next year as their version nr. Why isn't this iOS25?

I presume because due to it releasing in September, it’s lifetime will mostly lie in 2026. But honestly Idk, I am godawful at naming things.

Wow, that is bad.
The music one is probably the worst of the examples. The artist name is barely readable most of that clip.

The notifications are rough too, a big wall of white text against a burry multicolor background is not fun to read.

It has more blur than average Hyprland rice

I actually really like this…

Liquid Ass

It's what happens when they run out of useful things to improve but still need to announce something to make people think they're getting an upgrade.

yeah i don't remember the last time i liked something Apple made (probably over a decade by now) but this actually looks great.

Yep. I was really annoyed when Windows moved away from the aero effects of Vista and 7 to the flat look of 8/8.1, 10, and 11.

(Yes yes, Windows bad. I have to use it for work.)

I’m looking forward to this, I think it looks gorgeous.