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Google’s mobile operating system may have started out scrappy, but holy moly, has it ever evolved. Here’s a fast-paced tour of Android version highlights from the platform’s birth to present.

It’s no secret that Apple’s operating system version numbering has evolved organically. The company currently maintains seven operating systems with version numbers that begin with four different ...

Apple is skipping past iOS 19 and going right to iOS 26 — and it's bringing some pretty cool new features with it. For ...

MacOS is the only one of Apple's operating systems to have had its branding changed before. Apple released Mac OS X 10.0 in 2001, and gave the versions that followed both numbers and names that ...

Apple’s Mac operating system has undergone many sizeable changes over the years. Here’s every version in order, from the first edition in 2000 to the present.

The 3rd-gen Echo Show 5 is running a new operating system with a very low version number of 1.1. This is distinctly different from all other Echo devices with operating system version numbers ...

Mountain Lion, the last of the “big cat” versions of the Mac operating system launched in July 2012 (latest version 10.8.5) and can run on the following Macs: MacBook (Late 2008 to 2010 ...

The next major release of the iPhone operating system iOS, which is expected in the fall, could therefore not have the version number 19, but 26, which is supposed to stand for 2026. macOS ...

As of now, Apple's operating systems are based on version numbers, like iOS 18, MacOS 15, WatchOS 12, and VisionOS 2, with numbers varying depending on when the software initially launched.

Apple is unifying its operating system naming conventions, moving to a year-based system starting with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26. This change, a ...