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It won't be iPhone 6 (and more)

Anyone have a guess as to how many times this naming question has been asked on this forum ?

Doesn't the OP know how to use the Search function ?

Is there a real point to this thread ?

Does anyone with half a brain care about a stupid naming of a product ?

GET A LIFE WOULD YOU PLEASE ! :mad: :p
 
audix said:
Ok, so how do you explain this: They can get the rights to iPhone 5, they could have gotten the rights to iPhone 6?
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When did they get the rights? FWIW they can (and have) gotten the rights to plenty of URLS after the fact. And no, not by "buying them out", but by proving they had a product that justified the name and the squatter, if there was one, was nothing but a squatter.

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SR45 said:
Doesn't the OP know how to use the Search function ?
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Based on his own logic, the mere existence of this thread is proof that no, he doesn't know how to use the search function. :p

(heavy dose of sarcasm here guys)
 
Actually, when this thread was created, the search function was down. But this topic isn't just about the name...

It's about ruling out all of the possibilities, it could be anything about the iPhone until we snoop our way into the most likely, without-a-doubt possibility.

There's a scientific way of doing it.
 
audix said:
* This has been checked by using WHOIS to see which names Apple owns. If Apple doesn't own it, it can't have that name.
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This is not true, at all.

WHOIS is a search of who owns a domain name. And it's not a very good one because (1) the true owner can opt to be hidden and (2) it doesn't allow a reverse lookup.

Apple can call their products whatever they little hearts desire, as long as it doesn't infringe on someone else's trademarks (completely different from whois domain registry).

You can search the trademark registry pretty easily at the USPTO website. However, not all applications are made available right away (there are many rules involved, I don't feel like explaining it all right now nor do you want to read it all right now.)
 
I don't see why Apple wouldn't make it obvious. They're not out to get us.

@oneMadRssn You sound like you know a more reliable way.
 
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audix said:
@oneMadRssn You sound like you know a more reliable way.
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Go to http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=english&p_d=trmk and try your luck searching. I usually have better luck searching by owner address, as names tend to be a bit ambiguous. (For example, "Apple" could be "Apple Pie Inc", "Apple Orchard Inc", "Apple Lover Association", "Apple Repair Shop", etc.)

The search I did was << ("1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CALIFORNIA 95014")[OW] >> This searches the database for trademarks registered to that address. It returns about 900 records.

Searching << ("1 Infinite Loop Cupertino CALIFORNIA 95014")[OW] and (iphone)[MN] >> Which limits the above search only to marks that include the term iphone, you get about 20 results. None of the results have numbers or sub-names. For example, "iphone 4s" is not trademarked because the regular various "iphone" trademarks already cover it well enough.

However, I encourage anyone with some free time to go nuts on the trademark searching. You might find someone I am missing.
 
They're going to (or should) call it the new iPhone. The numbers are going to get confusing and out of hand, this is the most logical naming scheme and it fits with their other product lines. They should have done this since the 4s.
 
boss.king said:
They're going to (or should) call it the new iPhone. The numbers are going to get confusing and out of hand, this is the most logical naming scheme and it fits with their other product lines. They should have done this since the 4s.
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New iPhone has been ruled out.

Not only that but New iPhone is actually the worst naming scheme of all. When you go to search it up, you will just see a pile of phones and not know which one is actually the new one.

Since they might be calling it the iPhone 5, at what point would it get out of hand really. Is an iPhone 7 really going to confuse anyone?
 
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boss.king said:
They're going to (or should) call it the new iPhone. The numbers are going to get confusing and out of hand, this is the most logical naming scheme and it fits with their other product lines. They should have done this since the 4s.
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How is it confusing to anyone? iPhone 5 sounds normal to me. The New IPhone, would cause more confusion.
 
617aircav said:
How is it confusing to anyone? iPhone 5 sounds normal to me. The New IPhone, would cause more confusion.
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audix said:
New iPhone has been ruled out.

Not only that but New iPhone is actually the worst naming scheme of all. When you go to search it up, you will just see a pile of phones and not know which one is actually the new one.

Since they might be calling it the iPhone 5, at what point would it get out of hand really. Is an iPhone 7 really going to confuse anyone?
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Yeah, because the MacBook name scheme is so confusing :rolleyes:
Refer to it by its year. Alternatively, try google iPhone 4 or iPhone 3G, see how many results come up for a different model.

The new iPhone (which would actually just be 'iPhone') is fits their naming scheme (the one they use for iMac, iPods, MacBooks, Mac Pros).
 
boss.king said:
Yeah, because the MacBook name scheme is so confusing :rolleyes:
Refer to it by its year. Alternatively, try google iPhone 4 or iPhone 3G, see how many results come up for a different model.

The new iPhone (which would actually just be 'iPhone') is fits their naming scheme (the one they use for iMac, iPods, MacBooks, Mac Pros).
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Calling it the new iPhone is more confusing than any other name.
 
They wouldn't name it iPhone LTE because outside of the United States and Canada LTE is unheard of. '4G' wouldn't work, either, because normal customers referred the iPhone 4 as the iPhone 4G and vice versa with the iPhone 4S. I'm betting they'll just spin it off as introducing the new iPhone.
 
boss.king said:
Yeah, because the MacBook name scheme is so confusing :rolleyes:
Refer to it by its year. Alternatively, try google iPhone 4 or iPhone 3G, see how many results come up for a different model.

The new iPhone (which would actually just be 'iPhone') is fits their naming scheme (the one they use for iMac, iPods, MacBooks, Mac Pros).
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The thing about all of the Macs is that they all do the same thing. They all serve the same purpose. Notice the difference between MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.

The iPhones were marketed with different selling points. You had the iPhone 3G, which was the first 3G phone. Then you had the iPhone 4S, which was the first phone to have Siri.

So what you have to think about is what the new selling point will be. I have no idea, but from what I can see, it has something to do with Maps. Maps, mobile, mapping...

Hmm...
 
oneMadRssn said:
How has it been ruled out? We have nothing even close to conclusive.
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Why would Apple buy the domain for iPhone 5? Do they know that people think that the next iPhone will be called iPhone 5? Obviously.

But then again, if it's not named iPhone 5... what are they going to do with the domain name?

Technically new iPhone can never be ruled out because as long as it's an iPhone, and it's new, people are going to call it the new iPhone anyway.
 
audix said:
The thing about all of the Macs is that they all do the same thing. They all serve the same purpose. Notice the difference between MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.

The iPhones were marketed with different selling points. You had the iPhone 3G, which was the first 3G phone. Then you had the iPhone 4S, which was the first phone to have Siri.

So what you have to think about is what the new selling point will be. I have no idea, but from what I can see, it has something to do with Maps. Maps, mobile, mapping...

Hmm...
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The new selling point may just be the bigger screen and lte. Maps is nothing new, people wont be wowed by maps.
 
audix said:
The thing about all of the Macs is that they all do the same thing. They all serve the same purpose. Notice the difference between MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.

The iPhones were marketed with different selling points. You had the iPhone 3G, which was the first 3G phone. Then you had the iPhone 4S, which was the first phone to have Siri.

So what you have to think about is what the new selling point will be. I have no idea, but from what I can see, it has something to do with Maps. Maps, mobile, mapping...

Hmm...
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What? The MacBook Pro has the same name as it did 4 years ago. The Air is a different product line. And I guarantee the 2008 MBP can't do everything the 2012 one can, yet they carry the same name and are differentiated by the year they were made.
 
boss.king said:
What? The MacBook Pro has the same name as it did 4 years ago. The Air is a different product line. And I guarantee the 2008 MBP can't do everything the 2012 one can, yet they carry the same name and are differentiated by the year they were made.
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Okay, but what did they market that was different? Well this year, they marketed it with a retina display and now people are calling it the Retina MacBook. They didn't name it that but they could have.

617aircav said:
The new selling point may just be the bigger screen and lte. Maps is nothing new, people wont be wowed by maps.
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What? Maps is completely new. Just go to the Apple website. They're recreating it from scratch. Which is why people are afraid of it.

There's no confirmation about a bigger screen. You may just as well end up with an iPhone that's exactly the same size. It might even be smaller.
 
audix said:
Why would Apple buy the domain for iPhone 5? Do they know that people think that the next iPhone will be called iPhone 5? Obviously.
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They buy the name for iphone5 because they expect people will call it that, regardless of what apple marketing calls it. They also buy it to keep it out of the hands of a competitor or fan site. They might also do it to protect their iphone trademark. Most likely it's all of the above.

audix said:
But then again, if it's not named iPhone 5... what are they going to do with the domain name?
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Have it redirect to apple.com/iphone, just as iphone4.com does, or as ipad3.com does to the apple.com/ipad

audix said:
Technically new iPhone can never be ruled out because as long as it's an iPhone, and it's new, people are going to call it the new iPhone anyway.
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As I mentioned above, apple marketing officially calls the latest generation of the ipad "the new ipad" or just "ipad" but not "ipad3", but they still own the ipad3.com domain. Why would "the new iphone" or "iphone" but not "iphone5" be any different?
 
oneMadRssn said:
They buy the name for iphone5 because they expect people will call it that, regardless of what apple marketing calls it. They also buy it to keep it out of the hands of a competitor or fan site. They might also do it to protect their iphone trademark. Most likely it's all of the above.


Have it redirect to apple.com/iphone, just as iphone4.com does, or as ipad3.com does to the apple.com/ipad


As I mentioned above, apple marketing officially calls the latest generation of the ipad "the new ipad" or just "ipad" but not "ipad3", but they still own the ipad3.com domain. Why would "the new iphone" or "iphone" but not "iphone5" be any different?
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What? :eek: That's new information! I had no idea they did that.

Now I have to start all over again. *updating OP
 
Wasn't there an article on MacRumors after the 4S was released about www.iphone4s.com? It was originally a porn site or something, then apple bought it. This was AFTER the phone was released. So even if those names aren't owned by apple, doesn't mean they can't get it.
 
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