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I can't believe it's gone on for 12 pages when it was so obviously a joke/sarcasm in the first place.
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Apple Marketing Chief Phil Schiller: 'One Need Never Pluralize Apple Product Names'
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I can't believe it's gone on for 12 pages when it was so obviously a joke/sarcasm in the first place.
THE second news release from Apple's newly announced Vice President of Marketing Communications.
I think Tim ought to give Phil more work to do, since he clearly has too much time on his hands.
No Phil, you don't dictate my language. I won't say "two Mac computers" when "two Macs" does the job just fine. And the correct form is "iPad Pros" not "iPads Pro". Adapt or die!
Of course one random tweet is anything more than just that and somehow affects anything else.
Exactly, unless he publicly states it was a joke or sarcasm, he was being serious.
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And if he was in the context of that particular individual conversation, what then? It still doesn't really mean anything that just a comment in the context of that conversation, nothing more or less.
So it means nothing when all those politicians made their remarks on social media, like racist remarks, before or during their time as politicians then?
He is a senior highly paid executive of Apple that had the gall to tell their customers how to (incorrectly) pronounce their product names in conversation. That is not as trivial as you think.
The English language will decide. It's done a pretty good job for the last few thousand years.
Apple executive Phil Schiller gave Apple users a grammar lesson on Twitter yesterday afternoon, explaining that it isn't necessary to pluralize Apple product names.
Schiller's instructions came after a discussion on pluralizing "iPad Pro" between Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans and iMore analyst Michael Gartenberg. Evans referred to more than one iPad Pro as "iPads Pro," while Gartenberg said "iPad Pros."
Schiller clarified that neither approach was correct. The proper way to refer to more than one iPad Pro is to call them "iPad Pro devices."
He went on to further state that it would be correct to say "I have 3 Macintosh," or "I have 4 Macintosh computers" when referring to more than one Mac. "Words can be both singular and plural, such as deer and clothes," he explained. By that logic, more than one iPhone would need to be referred to as iPhone devices or iPhone models rather than "iPhones."
As Business Insider points out, Apple sometimes breaks its own naming rules. In press releases, the company has made mention of "iPhones" in the plural form.
Article Link: Apple Marketing Chief Phil Schiller: 'One Need Never Pluralize Apple Product Names'
What a bunch of baloney, Phil! I have been the proud owner of at least THREE Macintoshesses!
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what's next? You going to tell me "You are holding it wrong" was also sarcastic?
Yea if you go on his Twitter account and look at the conversation he had with Rene Ritchie from iMore, you'll see.
I wish they spent half as much effort working on innovative products that "delight" as they do thinking about whether a product name should be pluralized or not. Good God.
A politician making a racist comment? Seriously? In this case it means nothing more. Other cases involving other people should be evaluated in their own context and have no bearing on other cases.
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What does one have to do with the other. People are really desperate to make something out of effectively nothing.
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Much ado about nothing.
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Thats right, when you don't have an answer just attempt to brush it off.
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So did he say it was a joke AFTER the media got hold of the story? Or before?
When what is brought up is a completely irrelevant and outlandish attempt at an analogy, there's really not much more that could or should be done with it.