Apple: Back to the Mac? October 20 – Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA): Or maybe we’ll get to see the next version of the OS. The fact that there’s a cat involved settles an issue that I’d been puzzling over for a few months. I wondered if Apple might sit out the next year or so and make the next release of Mac OS X a truly revolutionary 11.0 instead of a 10.7 which builds upon Snow Leopard.