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Why are Linux, Windows uppercase? Where is macOS? Why is iOS lowercase?
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Apple's preferred spelling is that macOS and iOS not be capitalized, much like xkcd. But yeah, now that you mention it, that just says 'ios'.
Darn lazy memers
It was always pretty humorous to me that Microsoft named its early-2000s mobile operating system "Windows Compact Edition" and abbreviated it (officially) as "WinCE". The capitalization really mattered in this case.
I had the same question. The author didn't seem to employ the scientific rigor to call things by their correct names. It's as if they're treating it like spelling in a meme.
Is spelling things correctly in memes substantially harder than elsewhere?
Not really, but it is less rigurous and hardly ever enforced
iOS is lowercase for two reasons:
Pretty sure they're talking about why the meme says, 'WINDOWS', 'LINUX', and 'ios'.
Iβm talking about βiosβ in the meme, not the properly stylized βiOS.β
Oops... I misunderstood the question then...