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At some point the names collide. You knew it had to happen sooner or later.
Now they need to offer a 15 Pro Max Lite...
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Apple's Website Suggests iPhone 14 Plus Was Originally Going to Be Named 'iPhone 14 Max'
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It's got ELECTROLYTES!!
At some point the names collide. You knew it had to happen sooner or later.
Now they need to offer a 15 Pro Max Lite...
Maybe someone at Apple saw the Max name has been predicted by everyone that they just decided to throw a wrench and chang the name 
Since they no longer have a iPhone Mini my iPhone 14 Pro is now an iPhone 14 Pro Mini.
I see these comments all the time but no one ever offers up any suggestions!
Years ago I ran into a product that had a 'professional max', and a 'max professional' version. The 'pro max' was supposedly aimed at commercial users, and the 'max pro' was aimed for residential users, as I remember. If you think about it in a rather obtuse angle, it almost sort of makes sense. Almost. I laughed. What else could I do. No I didn't buy either.
I think this was probably most likely. They know people are going to try to get everything they can leaked out so they threw out crap for them to leak
And people go to university to learn to do that as a profession. Weird. And most of it is psychology. There were likely meetings over the reaction to those names and if they portrayed the 'feeling', impression, that they want to impart on customers.
Like 'packaging'. There are university programs in packaging, all to teach how to come up with packages for us to open. It's also rather physiologically driven. There is an emotion that is generated by opening 'new stuff', and companies want to amplify that feeling.
I have small hands and find the mini to be the perfect size
There are a number of possible anagrams of Pro Max:
iPhone Ax Romp
iPhone Ramp Ox
iPhone RAM Pox
That should give some inspiration for product differentiation.
They should also remove Max because they make Macs. It gets confusing
I think you are way closer to the truth than anyone here realizes or wants to admit.Maybe someone at Apple saw the Max name has been predicted by everyone that they just decided to throw a wrench and chang the name
Simply call them iPhone and iPhone Pro. Use the screen size and year to differentiate them. For example I have a 5.4" iPhone from 2021.
Using the generation number and a bunch of superlative tags is used as PinkyMacGodess is writing as I'm typing as a psychological way to generate FOMO. I wonder how much growth can be extracted from the Mac by doing the same. I suppose we will find out now that the processor model has taken on the generational number. The psychological pressure of using a perfectly serviceable machine with an M1 when the M3 or M4 models are out is going to be tough for a surprisingly large segment of the user base to bear.
Personally, prefer the term "Plus" over "Max". Ever since Max was introduced, it sounded so... awful. Corny. Cheese.
I used to comment with coworkers that the phones should've dropped numbers after X and done production years instead. "2021 iPhone mini". "2022 iPhone". "2022 iPhone Pro". That kind of stuff.
But then again... I don't get paid disgustingly inflated silicon valley salaries to cook up the marketing jargon.
I used to comment with coworkers that the phones should've dropped numbers after X and done production years instead. "2021 iPhone mini". "2022 iPhone". "2022 iPhone Pro". That kind of stuff.
But then again... I don't get paid disgustingly inflated silicon valley salaries to cook up the marketing jargon.
ask them lol. they’re clearly trying to have *some* consistency between product lines.
no one said they have to be static or all aligned, but it just makes sense to use certain terminology/descriptions across the board.
it’s a normal thing. having a Plus Pro iPhone and a Max Plus Mac and an Air Pro iPad wouldn’t make a ton of sense right?
Ultra > Max > Pro > Plus > "Standard" (no qualifier) > SE
This is the current naming scheme hierarchy. If they used iPhone 14 Max instead of iPhone 14 Plus, it would have contradicted the hierarchy (14 Max > 14 Pro).
Next year iPhones are no doubt going to be 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro and 15 Ultra.
This is the current naming scheme hierarchy. If they used iPhone 14 Max instead of iPhone 14 Plus, it would have contradicted the hierarchy (14 Max > 14 Pro).
Next year iPhones are no doubt going to be 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro and 15 Ultra.
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Steve Jobs would be turning in his grave with how convoluted the current iphone line up is. I mean two 6.1 phones and two 6.7 phones... wtf.... if your gonna release 4 models at the same time at least have some variety.
Max sounds like a powerful and high end device, which is not what the 14 Plus is. I believe plus is the proper name for what is essentially a blown up iPhone 13. I don't mind the name Max and Plus, what bothers me is how casually Pro was thrown around. It seems like Apple may be shifting course on that with the Apple Watch Ultra. Moving forward I don't see any new products carrying the Pro moniker. It's too late to change the name of the Airpod's Pro and iPhone Pro, so I'm content with them remaining like that.
I have wondered this lol, but there *is* a very slightly difference in how Max and Macs sound. the C is more pronounced in Macs. and you also say “I use a Max” not “I use a Macs”.
it’s not so bad.
Wouldn't a simpler solution be an Apple Watch and the smallest iPhone. That way you take your phone out of your pocket only when you want to, all notifications would go to the Apple Watch?