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I was actually shocked when they didn't call the iPhone 5 "the new iPhone", since it was after they'd done so with the iPad.

• dkrich 14y ago
  I think the main reason for this is that (to my knowledge) you can only buy the newest model of the iPad at any given time whereas the market for phones is far more segmented. Thinking of my friends, I know simultaneously people who have the 4, 4S, and 5, and you can purchase pretty much three models at any given time. Differentiating them would be far more difficult if you only had one name across the board.
  • 0x0 14y ago
    They are still selling the iPad 2 and the iPad 4 side by side: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/compare http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/compare
    • frou_dh 14y ago
      It's fortunate for "launch" iPad 2 owners that it's still sold in 2013, because that suggests that it will continue receiving iOS updates and not be left behind any time soon.
  • MBCook 14y ago
    The iPad 2 is (or at least was) still available, as a low cost non-retina option. I believe it continued to outsell the iPad 3. Now that the iPad Mini exists to fill that segment, they may be more likely to remove the old options.