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I can't believe they named a phone X[s]. How can they not see everyone calling it "iPhone excess?"
by lanestp 8y ago
I can't believe they named a phone X[s]. How can they not see everyone calling it "iPhone excess?"
- ct0 8y agofirst thing i thought. Iphone Max Excess
- zelos 8y agoiPhone Tens?
- azhenley 8y agoiPhone XS Max... Extra Small Max is Medium?
- kgwxd 8y agoExtra Small Max == Small Min - 1
- spike021 8y agoPronounced as "iPhone Ten Smacks"
- nickpp 8y agoI can’t believe they didn’t call the Xs Max - XL instead. I mean they have an XS and an XL size...
- mschaef 8y ago"XL" has some negative connotations for Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_XL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_XL
- cuspycode 8y agoNegative in what way? In my experience they were excellent machines that had much better overall performance than the original "toaster" models. Their main problem was that they had non-square pixels, but people put up with that for many use-cases.
- lallysingh 8y ago33 years ago. I don't think it's a motivation here.
- partiallypro 8y agoThe new iPhone naming convention sounds like a line of condoms.
- samstave 8y agoWould you like files with that?
- phinnaeus 8y agoThey have an Xs, but it's hardly XS sized.
- bertjk 8y agothey can probably see it just fine, and they know it won't hurt them. "iPad" was a name lampooned for years before iPads were ever a thing, and that seems to be doing just fine too.
- stcredzero 8y agoHow can they not see everyone calling it "iPhone excess?" Is that necessarily bad? Up to a point, the more meme-ing and acrimony around your brand, the better. "There's no such thing as bad publicity."
- slg 8y agoCalling your $1100+ phone the iPhone Excess Max is a great way to get every talk show to discuss an update that appears to be little more than an incremental speed bump.
- samstave 8y agoIs it just me, or was there not a very specific arab overtone to the marketing in the videos on this announcement: In the sand, the desert, the oasis village, the gold... They must really want every Saudi to overspend on the 512gb S Max gold++++
- tw1010 8y agoEveryone thought people were going to make tampon jokes about the iPad Pro ("maxipad"), but as far as I know it hasn't caught on. I don't think this will either, for the same reason. People who buy the phone won't call it that because they sunk so much cost into it. The only ones who might call it the iPhone excess are die hard android users, but those don't communicate much with iPhone users (at least not in such an aggressive way in real life, outside forums), so the phrase won't get any traction.
- smitherfield 8y agoThere is no "iPad Max"?
- FPGAhacker 8y agoThere were feminine hygiene product jokes about the iPad when it came out. It was too obvious to be funny. That said, all the super duper max promax naming seems lame to me.
- tw1010 8y agoThere were, but it hasn't caught on long term. I don't think the "iPhone excess" will either.
- agumonkey 8y agoand xs is not flagship-like. I'd be Apple I'd have named it SX so bad. I'm still betting that people will nickname it SX.
- paulcole 8y agoWouldn't work. Apple pronounces the X as 10. So it would be S-10 like the Chevy truck.
- 1709345 8y agoiPhone Exs
- singularity2001 8y agoiPhone Access, like the cute MS database
- gdubs 8y agoI'm an iPhone user, love the camera, and the new ones look really nice – but the naming feels like 90s Apple with their myriad Mac models. I tuned in late, saw Ives' video, and I'm still like, which is which?
- russellbeattie 8y agoI registered xs.io years ago thinking it was a cool, super short domain, but soon realized that it was a true pain to communicate verbally. I sold it this past summer to someone who has yet to do anything with it. I'm honestly wondering now if it was Apple who bought it.
- pervycreeper 8y agohow much for?
- majewsky 8y agoWhois shows GoDaddy. I doubt that Apple would be using GoDaddy. In fact, whois on apple.com shows that their registrar is www.cscprotectsbrands.com.
- mpweiher 8y agoI was hoping for the iPhone SE[X]. SE form factor, but with the new display. Not sure I need face id. Er: "need".
- chooseaname 8y agoEven "Tennis" and "Tennis Match" is bad.