Character
Marvin wears a ripped shirt that is various shades of blue (more so this one (#5188b1), has tattoos on his upper arms, long wavy brown (#8a6d65) hair, a necklace with a seashell, grey (#8a8b8d) shorts, and a brown (#67533b) bracelet. Unlike his siblings before him he attempted to drift away from their "old style" and promote a new one similar to iOS 7-tan, although slightly less successfully.
He’s got a knack for surfing, is energetic, very sociable, friendly, helpful, speaks surfer slang and has a surfboard. He also has a good sense of direction and a love for reading.
Despite all this, he tries to be generous even though the high ups quickly kicked him under the carpet (not literally), sort of forgiving him years later.
Family and Relationships
iOS 7-tan
Tamika and Marvin are often seen as a duo since they were introduced together, but they aren't exactly the same. She is more sillier than Marvin, can't swim, wears more stylish clothes and acts like she is stuck in 2013 with her jokes, slang and humor. Their outfits are also contrasting with one another, although Marvin did feel a bit overshadowed by her as more people drifting their attention to her.
References and sources
- Wikipedia entry on OS X Mavericks.
- OS X Mavericks was the first OS X release to be named after a location in California, and the first to be a free upgrade. Previous versions costed money until up to 2023 with Apple no longer selling OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion installers and were made for free.
- You can't find it from Apple anymore. Mavericks is abandonware and so strange that the Mavericks installer got removed from the App Store, but the later OSX installers are still available.
- It removed some of the skeuomorphic designs from OS X Mountain Lion.
- Mavericks added iBooks to Macs and the new Maps application adds the same functionalities that were featured in iOS Maps.
- The higher ups somewhat forgiving him is a reference to how you can still find manuals and downloads for everything **BUT** the installer itself.
- Marvin and Tamika sort of having a weird relation ship is due to the fact OS X Engineers pitched in to ship iOS 7 "on time". This is kinda like the stuff about how Leopard's debut kinda got dragged on because of the original iPhone.
- A part of his surfboard is based on the 2013 trash can Mac Pro.