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Although the HN title (currently) says "Ipad 3", Apple seems to actually be calling it the new "iPad" (edit: "new iPad", not "New iPad"). It's a bit confusing:
by Xuzz 15y ago
Although the HN title (currently) says "Ipad 3", Apple seems to actually be calling it the new "iPad" (edit: "new iPad", not "New iPad"). It's a bit confusing: next year, is it then the "old iPad"?
But, we don't really have that issue with many other Apple products (iPod nano, all Macs, etc) that use the same naming scheme. So we'll see how bad it actually ends up.
- wmf 15y agoI wonder if this will reduce complaints about "planned obsolescence".
- WiseWeasel 15y agoIt looks like they're just calling it "iPad" now on their website. It's an interesting idea; maybe they plan on always calling the current one "iPad", and renaming the old model something like "iPad 2012" once the 2013 "iPad" is released.
- count 15y agoThey don't say 'MacBook Air 4', just 'MacBook Air'. I think this is to unify that naming scheme.
- celoyd 15y agoAs people have pointed out, this is essentially how things like MacBooks work. I happen to know I have a “mid-2010” MacBook, but that isn’t printed on it anywhere and the average user would never know. It’s not a MacBook 7S or whatever.
- moe 15y agoThe lack of a numbering scheme is a royal pain in the ass when googling bugs or trying to find pretty much any information about a specific model. Although admittedly we already have that with most of their other devices ("do i have an early 2011 MB or was it the mid-2010?") and it's not like other vendors are much better in this regard.
- WiseWeasel 15y agoI guess it helps that the iPad is on a yearly release schedule, as opposed to their Mac products.
- pault 15y agoThere is a model identifier, it's just hidden in the system profiler (Mid 2011 air is MacBookAir4,2)
- why-el 15y agoI also think that the naming convention is gonna stick for a while.
- bobbyi 15y agoThat's how the iPod has generally worked. The current Nano is packaged as "iPod nano" not "iPod nano 6".
- losvedir 15y agoIt's what they've always done. The "iPad 2" was always officially just called the "iPad" as well. My friend won one in a raffle, and we scoured the box looking at whether it was the new "iPad 2" or not. It never mentioned the "2" anywhere, but we eventually realized from the device's shape that it was the 2.
- m3koval 15y agoApples call it the "iPad 2" on their online store. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad (look at the bottom of the page)
- ugh 15y agoI bet they were pissed after people were disappointed that they only got an iPhone 4S and no iPhone 5. Plus at some point you have to stop numbering. iPhone 23 doesn’t sound very appealing.
- runako 15y agoI think this is one way Apple brings their marketing in line with how average consumers think. Most non-gadget people don't know the difference between the iPhone 4, 4S, and 3GS , other than price. They assume the more expensive one is better and does more stuff. But model numbers (even if it's just a single number) are not the way most consumers think. Similarly, the iPhone 4S simply says "iPhone" on the back and is not easily differentiated from the original iPhone 4.
- jiggy2011 15y agoI'm not sure , sticking numbers after something is a fairly universal thing. Movies, video games and most software has been doing this for a while.
- schiffern 15y agoThe farther away from this Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch nonsense, the happier I'll be. I think the reason people misattribute Apple's success to marketing is because everyone else's marketing is just godawful. And no, I didn't make that name up.
- jiggy2011 15y agoI can believe it , most laptops have names that are pretty much impossible to remember which in turn makes it very difficult to recommend a specific model to anybody not to mention uninspiring.
- megablast 15y agoNot only that, looking at the HP order page, there doesn't seem to be much difference between them all.
- jarek 15y agoNot that recommending a "15 inch Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz with a 2.5 GHz CPU, a 256GB Solid State Drive, and the Hi-Res Antiglare Widescreen Display" is particularly straightforward or inspiring.
- joejohnson 15y agoI think it's just called the iPad. Right now it's new, so they're referring to it as the "new iPad". This naming convention is simpler that appending a hardware version number to the name at each refresh. Also, it's what Apple currently does with most of their other product lines. It's the MacBook Pro, not the MacBook Pro 3. The iPods were always called just that, an iPod. People referred to them as the nth generation iPod, but Apple labeled them iPods. Easy. I wouldn't be surprised if this naming convention spreads the iPhone.
- Confusion 15y agoMacbooks are versioned. The versions people refer to are 'mid 2007', 'late 2008', etc. iPods are also versioned. People refer to their '4G iPod shuffle' or their '2G iPod touch'
- joejohnson 15y agoRight, customers call them that, but Apple calls their products iPods and MacBooks when they are selling them. The names are simply "iPod", etc. The hardware revision number is only used when need to disambiguate.
- thatjoshguy 15y agoBut that's not the actual product name, as used by Apple publicly.
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- warmfuzzykitten 15y agoWhen you check out, it's referred to as iPad (3rd generation).
- warmfuzzykitten 15y agoWhen you check out, it's referred to as iPad (3rd generation).
- warmfuzzykitten 15y agoWhen you check out, it's labeled "iPad (3d generation)".