Did it cheapen the brand when they dropped the numbers on iPad, iPod, MacBook, MacBook Pro? I think not.
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Latest Leak Suggests Apple Will Announce 'iPhone 8', 'iPhone 8 Plus', and 'iPhone X' on Tuesday
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I don’t care what they call it. I just want it in my hands already.
Yeah I would have been furious. Now they are calling it the 8 instead I am totally OK with it. The name makes absolutely 0 difference. The 8 will still be inferior to the X. Changing the name doesn't make even the slightest difference.
Whatever they're called, may everyone who buys one enjoy it.
Maybe the pricing won't be as expected. They could bring the SE or its successor to budget $2-300 levels, make the 8/8+ into the mid-range $500-600 and have the X at the usually high end price.
They'd be competing outside of their normal market which would be weird considering Apple has almost always been high end, but I just don't see the point of an expensive 8/+ when you can pay an extra $100 or so for the X.
They'd be competing outside of their normal market which would be weird considering Apple has almost always been high end, but I just don't see the point of an expensive 8/+ when you can pay an extra $100 or so for the X.
This is exactly what I said in another post, they really had to call them all iPhone 8, if not the 7s would be the old right on release.
Now they are all new phones, and now many people will feel fine with the mainstream 8 over the X.
This means the mainstream 8 will have a new back, wireless charging, new sensors and new cameras for AR. So really this would have been the most updated S line ever, so yeah, why not call them all iPhone 8.
Now they are all new phones, and now many people will feel fine with the mainstream 8 over the X.
This means the mainstream 8 will have a new back, wireless charging, new sensors and new cameras for AR. So really this would have been the most updated S line ever, so yeah, why not call them all iPhone 8.
So what will they call them next year? 8s, 8s plus & Xs? And in two years what will they call them? The 10, 10 plus and 10X? Or will this years X model with the OLED be a one off 10th anniversary only model? I imagine so. That way Apple can just put all the features in the X model into the iphone 9 & 9 plus and go back to the two model scheme. Makes sense.
I'm not going to list them as I genuinely couldn't give a toss. I didn't claim Samsung were better.
I don't treat technology or any company involved in it as a religion or a situation where I have to pick a side and defend it to the bitter end because that would make me a bit of an oddball. Hope that helps clear things up for you.
Its hard to see any other way than iPhone, iPhone Pro. iPhone X is complicated because its can mean two different things. (10 or Ex). iPhone 7s and 8 is just silly. I'm saying iPhone Pro 70%. iPhone X 30%. Doesn't anybody watch Narcos? This is a fake leak to find whose leaking!!!
So no Apple Pay cash in iMessage? I kind of figured this wouldn’t come out for awhile, wouldn’t it need to be beta tested? maybe in 11.1 or 11.2. Too bad since that’s what I was looking forward too most in iOS 11.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/9/16280026/apple-iphone-face-id-animoji-features-leak
Slightly redesigned AirPod case haven't seen mentioned yet on MacRumors.
Slightly redesigned AirPod case haven't seen mentioned yet on MacRumors.
I was really hoping for iPhone Tall, iPhone Grande and iPhone Venti each with the Starbucks app pre-installed and free Starbucks coffee for one year.
Absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence!
IN other words just because no one has yet seen evidence of touch id on the iPhone 8/x/edition it does not mean it has been removed, just that it can't be found!
Smart naming if true, for several reasons:
- “7S” doesn’t work since it sounds inferior to iPhone’s direct competitor, the Galaxy S8.
- “iPhone Pro” doesn’t work since it’s not a professional desktop device or replacement.
- “iPhone Edition” doesn’t work since it’s not a regular iPhone with a more expensive case.
So by using deduction and common sense the following works:
- iPhone 8 & 8 Plus: LCD phone with wireless charging, a new case, and major internal upgrades justify a full number bump.
- iPhone X: Apple used the ‘X’ before to designate major redesigns near or on their tenth generation (OS X, Final Cut Pro X), so it’s perfect for the tenth aniversary iPhone.
By the above reasoning there won’t be an “iPhone 8s” come next year since it’ll sound inferior to the expected Galaxy S9. I’d expect this is the last year for LCD iPhones and their naming conventions. So next year we may get an iPhone X2, iPhone X series 2, or just simply iPhone and iPhone Plus as a sort of reset.
- “7S” doesn’t work since it sounds inferior to iPhone’s direct competitor, the Galaxy S8.
- “iPhone Pro” doesn’t work since it’s not a professional desktop device or replacement.
- “iPhone Edition” doesn’t work since it’s not a regular iPhone with a more expensive case.
So by using deduction and common sense the following works:
- iPhone 8 & 8 Plus: LCD phone with wireless charging, a new case, and major internal upgrades justify a full number bump.
- iPhone X: Apple used the ‘X’ before to designate major redesigns near or on their tenth generation (OS X, Final Cut Pro X), so it’s perfect for the tenth aniversary iPhone.
By the above reasoning there won’t be an “iPhone 8s” come next year since it’ll sound inferior to the expected Galaxy S9. I’d expect this is the last year for LCD iPhones and their naming conventions. So next year we may get an iPhone X2, iPhone X series 2, or just simply iPhone and iPhone Plus as a sort of reset.
Eventually Apple is going to have to rethink the naming scheme, and just go with calling it iphone and perhaps iphone pro. Once you start getting into double digits, the numbering gets kinda silly. The iphone 18? 22? 34? Nah. After they reach 10, Just start calling them the iphone & iphone plus. No more numbers.
Oh.
Actually, wildly confused!
Your post seemed like a direct complaint about the HUGE number of different iPhone models (4); so I just thought I’d put it in perspective for you!
VERY confused about how having models with different names would make one company “better” or any of the other tangents you wandered down there, lol.
Only that iPhone X will still have a higher number or more prestigious than the others, essentially giving the same effect that the other models are inferior in some way.
You are, of course, referring to the "New iPad" instead of iPad 3. That name did cheapen the brand.
Did they ever have numbers on iPods, or any macbook? The powerbooks had numbers, but I don't recall numbers on any notebooks beyond that.
It did cheapen the brand when they discontinued the macbook and then brought it back as a weird air/pro hybrid with no modifier in its name.
How about naming everything with numbers that count down? When they get to 0 they rebrand.
I’m wagering the overhaul of the 7 line is extensive enough that calling it 8 works better than 7S.
Example being we know that Apple is redesigning the exterior with glass back and reshaped stainless sides.
Apple doesn’t usually overhaul the exterior for the S iterations so 8 might make more sense