'6S Marketing' Ad Agency Asks Apple to Rename 'iPhone 6s'

[FieldingMellish]

6S Marketing. The ad agency you never heard of. Until now.

 

[keysofanxiety]

6S Marketing: Dear Apple, please call it the iPhone 7
Apple: Thanks for the free marketing! We will call it the iPhone 6s though.

I don't think it's Apple who are in need of the free marketing ...

 

[scrap104]

Two years from now: Global Surf Industries, makers of the 7S surfboard, asks Apple to rename iPhone 7s

 

[gkarris]

I think they should stick with the current model scheme and call it 6s...

Heck, they should go back to the original model label scheme and call the next one after

6SE



(success-ey) LOL

 

[peterdevries]

Then I hope you're never in a position to hire a marketing this because this is great advertising

I disagree. This only demonstrates that they have a ****** name (even without the iPhone naming scheme) and have enough budget to buy a few billboards.

 

[Oblivious.Robot]

When I start my company it's going to be called "P-NS" with a slogan "We help you grow your business", and that's only because "PMS" was already taken.


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Lame attempt at humour.

 

[JustThinkin']

Smart self-promotion, except they're liars because they know with absolute certainty Apple couldn't change the name now (and they wouldn't want them to either, because Apple will inadvertently continue to promote their company's name for years now).

 

[jermy4]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the boxes are already printed and the TV ads are already done too. I don't see apple changing the name at this point in the game.

 

[peterdevries]

because Apple will inadvertently continue to promote their company's name for years now).

There is not a single person on this planet that will buy an iPhone 6s and will think of this advertising company. This is a very expensive 15 minutes of fame.

 

[576316]

Ahahahahahahaha...nope. Dream on. It's gonna be called the iPhone 6s and I really don't think Apple could care less about some small advertising agency called '6S'. Not Apple's problem.

 

[Jim L]

I was kind of hoping they might change it to 7 or some other naming scheme to totally screw with Samsung.
Samsung not only copies their design, features, packaging, marketing but also their naming scheme with a subtle change.

 

[naeS1Sean]

They've probably been planning this since the 4S. (Rolls eyes)

 

[MrGuder]

I got a sales call from 6s marketing on my answer machine and I thought it was Apple saying I won a new 6s to claim my prize, what should I do?

 

[H2SO4]

What a lame way to try to drum up attention.

It’s worked hasn’t it? We’re all reading and commenting after all.

 

[rduncan10]

6S does look a lot like 6-Sigma, the statistical term and the manufacturing/quality process named after it. This may be why the marketing company used the term. 6-Sigma is often abbreviated as 6S by people who can't easily type the Greek character. I have some T-shirts with "6S" on them, which I got when working for an autoparts company that was doing a 6-sigma campaign.

6S kind of means "close to perfect".

It would be very ironic if there ended up being a manufacturing defect in the iPhone 6S lines. The 6S wouldn't be 6-Sigma.

 

[dannyyankou]

Too late. Already in mass production and boxes say iPhone 6s on them.

 

[mscriv]

Bravo 6S Marketing. Well played, I say.

 

[peterh988]

Buy 'em out, stick 'em in a leaky basement in the back of beyond, forget about them. Market your way out of that!

6S just got 86'd

 

[TallManNY]

Fun marketing play. Will mainstream media pick this up? If so, totally worth it. Of course Apple won't change the name. But folks will wonder who the 6S guys are.

 

[H2SO4]

I was kind of hoping they might change it to 7 or some other naming scheme to totally screw with Samsung.
Samsung not only copies their design, features, packaging, marketing but also their naming scheme with a subtle change.

But not in this case.

 

[DTphonehome]

I'd to see Apple move away from this naming scheme altogether. Just call it the iPhone 2015 (and iPhone Plus 2015). We all know there's a new one every year. The number is getting a little awkward.

 

[winston1236]

This is obviously a no name company hoping to ride on the coattails of Apple. Clearly it's working.

 

[DrumApple]

Wow, what a shameless publicity stunt by a company no one has ever heard of or cares about. I would never do business with a marketing company like that, it's quite pathetic if you ask me to try and ride the coattails of Apple. Try doing some legitimate marketing.

 

[Four oF NINE]

Total non-story.. a marketing outfit nobody ever heard of and not in the tech industry

 

[dwsolberg]

They are a marketing company, and this is a marketing ploy, so I guess this should be expected.