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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

iOS is lowercase for two reasons:

  • Naming consistency. Since they are already name it iPhone, might as well name the OS the same way.
  • The name was already in use. This may have not been as significant for choosing the name of Apple's OS, but when the first iPhone released, Cisco IOS was already a family of operating systems for routers and network switches, and the Wii had already released a few months before, and they also called the console's operating system(s) as IOS.
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