The difference in the naming of Android and iOS is that Google makes public the names of the various versions of their code system, which are becoming more popular than the ticket.

Apple’s Mac OS is known by its feline related nomenclature, e.g. Tiger, Leopard and most recently Lion. The iOS internal codenames seem to follow a wintry resort theme, with iOS 5.1 named Hoodoo after a ski resort in Oregon.

Those name are not sugary like Honey or Ice cream like Android but still the code names for iOS versions are quite interesting.

Following are the code names (14 full list) for iOS versions in ascending order :-

1.0: Alpine (1.0.0 – 1.0.2: Heavenly)
1.1: Little Bear (1.1.1: Snowbird, 1.1.2: Oktoberfest)
2.0: Big Bear
2.1: Sugarbowl
2.2: Timberline
3.0: Kirkwood
3.1: Northstar
3.2: Wildcat (iPad only)
4.0: Apex
4.1: Baker
4.2: Jasper (4.2.5 – 4.2.10: Phoenix)
4.3: Durango
5.0: Telluride
5.1: Hoodoo