chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Jul 31, 2021 6:17:06 GMT -8
A small retreat after hitting an all-time high is not unexpected. The drumbeat for new Fall releases should be building soon. Here’s a silly question : Should Apple have skipped a model 13 for the iPhone? I am sure that after the first inevitable bug is found, someone will cite it. Meanwhile… PED has Here’s the explosive Elon Musk-Tim Cook story both parties deny. Have great weekend, everyone!
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Post by CdnPhoto on Jul 31, 2021 7:12:37 GMT -8
Here’s a silly question : Should Apple have skipped a model 13 for the iPhone? I am sure that after the first inevitable bug is found, someone will cite it. I think the bigger question is the iPhone 14. In the Chinese culture, numbers ending in 4 are considered bad luck. As I saw it described, 14 translated to "certain death". In my Condo (Toronto) there is no 13th floor, but also no 4, 14, 24 etc. Same goes with unit numbers.
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Post by bud777 on Jul 31, 2021 15:15:59 GMT -8
A small retreat after hitting an all-time high is not unexpected. The drumbeat for new Fall releases should be building soon. Here’s a silly question : Should Apple have skipped a model 13 for the iPhone? I am sure that after the first inevitable bug is found, someone will cite it. Meanwhile… PED has Here’s the explosive Elon Musk-Tim Cook story both parties deny. Have great weekend, everyone! I think they should move away from numbers altogether. How about the iPhone 5G. Or the Big Mac? Or they could continue the MacOS convention of naming it after places in California. Of course, being smaller, the names should be more modest, like the iPhone Bakersfield or the iPhone Eureka. The watch could continue the theme with the Watch Weed. Ask a silly question....
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mark
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Post by mark on Aug 1, 2021 19:30:55 GMT -8
Or just "iPhone" and then go by model year... like cars do.
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Post by 4aapl on Aug 1, 2021 20:15:48 GMT -8
Or just "iPhone" and then go by model year... like cars do. Sounds good! They have skipped numbers before. We had the various S series ones, like the iPhone 5s. But 9 was skipped over, right?
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Post by mark on Aug 1, 2021 20:23:29 GMT -8
Or just "iPhone" and then go by model year... like cars do. Sounds good! They have skipped numbers before. We had the various S series ones, like the iPhone 5s. But 9 was skipped over, right? Yep. And even "10" was never used, instead they did the odd 'X' thing. And then XS, and then XR. But as with cars, there is the main model name, the trim, and the year. And if you look at a carmaker like Tesla, they seem to have done away with "trim", at least for their top-selling models. I can see it go a few ways ... they use '13' and utterly ignore triskaidekaphobia completely, or they skip 13 and go to 14, or they skip both 13 and 14 and use some other naming scheme. Once you run out of single digits it seems to become cumbersome to use numbers Maybe "iPhone 21"?.
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Post by 4aapl on Aug 1, 2021 20:28:41 GMT -8
Sounds good! They have skipped numbers before. We had the various S series ones, like the iPhone 5s. But 9 was skipped over, right? Yep. And even "10" was never used, instead they did the odd 'X' thing. And then XS, and then XR. But as with cars, there is the main model name, the trim, and the year. And if you look at a carmaker like Tesla, they seem to have done away with "trim", at least for their top-selling models. I can see it go a few ways ... they use '13' and utterly ignore triskaidekaphobia completely, or they skip 13 and go to 14, or they skip both 13 and 14 and use some other naming scheme. Once you run out of single digits it seems to become cumbersome to use numbers Maybe "iPhone 21"?. Already they use so little numbering on the iPhone itself. It looks like it's in Settings->General->About, and I think it's on the box, but it's not actually on the unit itself. That's actually a pet peeve of mine, trying to figure out what model a unit is while it is off, or not working. But it's true across many Apple lines these days, like the iPhone, iPad, iMac, and various laptops. It's a little trouble when having a friend's machine that isn't working, but normally there is some number that I can do a google search of. It's a pain, but it is what they have standardized on. What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
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