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by sharkfinsoupmix 2187 days ago
20 years from now:

Introducing macOS 9000000.13.0 Pro Platinum.

Now with a more emphatic, less mercurial, less violent, and less passive-aggressive AI because each device contains 47% more genetically-engineered neurons. Each device is guaranteed to be personally-imprinted and infatuated with only you and do everything you need it to do.

At what point do version numbers become meaningless? Why not just rolling releases with a major number and a patch number? Or if the goal is to make it seem like fewer releases are happening, why not 4 components?