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It feels like Apple product naming gets closer and closer to the confusion known from other manufacturers. Back then it was just the iPhone with an incrementing
by alpaca128 7y ago
It feels like Apple product naming gets closer and closer to the confusion known from other manufacturers. Back then it was just the iPhone with an incrementing number afterwards. Now we get 2 different iPhone generations(8 and X) launched at the same time with a gap inbetween, and additional letter combinations afterwards with unknown meanings. What does XR mean and what XS? No idea, but those two letters cost extra.
- grandinj 7y agoWithout a strong design person at the top to push against this, marketing loves to comes up with these things. For some reason, they really dislike the simplicity of simple numbering. Probably because it doesn't give them any scope to do much.
- s1t5 7y ago> Back then it was just the iPhone with an incrementing number afterwards. I just had to look this up - the only actual increment in version numbers was iPhone 8 following iPhone 7. And even that counts just barely considering that they released iPhone X a month after 8. I agree with your feeling on the confusing product line though - it mostly comes from very similar models being released at the same time which wasn't the case in the past.
- jorvi 7y agoThat's just patently false. You have iPhone 3G > iPhone 3GS > iPhone 4 > iPhone 4S > iPhone 5 > iPhone 5S > iPhone 6 & Plus > iPhone 6S & 6S Plus > iPhone 7 & 7 Plus so the naming scheme was consistent for a very long time. The iPhone 8 & 8 Plus actually broke the $N > $NS cadence.
- s1t5 7y agoIncrementing a number means increasing it, usually by a fixed amount (in this case 1). That's the context in which 7 to 8 is the only increment.