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Latest Leak Suggests Apple Will Announce 'iPhone 8', 'iPhone 8 Plus', and 'iPhone X' on Tuesday

Excellent, looks like the X phone will be the $1000 model. Its an X, cracking features, its the "pro" line :)
While iPhone 8 will be the same design as iPhone 6 and 7 with modest HW update, that will be for those "non-pro" users.
Tim, I am sure you heard this before, but I'll reiterate: you are a clown
 
doelcm82 said:
Exactly. Just look at how ridiculous the Super Bowl has become.
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Numbering a yearly historical event like the super bowl makes sense. Indefinitely attaching a number to each iPhone release isn’t very important.
 
chromite said:
I'm only going to buy the iPhone X if it has a headphone jack, costs $850 for 128GB, and comes with free AirPods. Otherwise I'm just going to get the regular 8.

/s
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If it doesn't come with AirPods it's definitely a no sale for me!
 
raskar said:
Excellent, looks like the X phone will be the $1000 model. Its an X, cracking features, its the "pro" line :)
While iPhone 8 will be the same design as iPhone 6 and 7 with modest HW update, that will be for those "non-pro" users.
Tim, I am sure you heard this before, but I'll reiterate: you are a clown
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It doesn’t look like the same design to me.

The 6S offered a lot more than a modest hardware update. I’m betting the 8 models will have a lot of under the hood improvements and a display resolution bump.
 
You can bet the lame reporters who are not really into tech reporting at the invent and calling it 'iPhone ex'
 
CE3 said:
Numbering a yearly historical event like the super bowl makes sense. Indefinitely attaching a number to each iPhone release isn’t very important.
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It doesn't "make sense" to give a yearly historical event a number. If its an annual (or less frequent) event, you can just use the year (like the 2020 Olympics). It's no more "important" for the Super Bowl to have a number than it is for the iPhone release to have a number.
 
This year:

iPhone 8
iPhone 8 Plus
iPhone X

Apple's phone linup in the coming future.

iPhone Mini
(Previously SE, replaced by smaller iPhone X)

iPhone
(Previously "iPhone X")

iPhone Plus
(Previously iPhone 8 plus, replaced by bigger iPhone X)

They cant possibly keep going on with numerical scheme forever.
 
doelcm82 said:
It doesn't "make sense" to give a yearly historical event a number. If its an annual (or less frequent) event, you can just use the year (like the 2020 Olympics). It's no more "important" for the Super Bowl to have a number than it is for the iPhone release to have a number.
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No more important, you’re right (important wasn’t a good word to use). Next year a lot of people will watch the 2018 Oscars, but it will still be officially known as the 90th Academy Awards. And of course that makes sense. I guess I see a difference between numbering these types of events and indefinitely numbering iPhone releases.

Technically Apple has already released 12 iPhone iterations, so the numbers are off anyway.
 
Radon87000 said:
Seems Apple doesnt want people with the lower tier LCD phones to think they are inferior to the iPhone X in any way and hence skipping the S moniker. Psychological marketing
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Apple doesn't want anyone feeling inferior. This isn't marketing, this is Apple handing out participation trophies.
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Cronowerx said:
Cue the “Is it iPhone Ten or iPhone Ex” debate.
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100% "Ex". They'd be totally skipping iPhone 9 if it's Ten. Apple might market the X as representing the "Tenth Anniversary", but it's official name will be "Ex"
 
Radon87000 said:
Seems Apple doesnt want people with the lower tier LCD phones to think they are inferior to the iPhone X in any way and hence skipping the S moniker. Psychological marketing
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Isn't the fact that they have a body design change enough to skip the S moniker? Nothing psychological about that.
 
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I am iPhone X pensive, so I will wait for next year's model packed with outrageous features called the iPhone Xs!!

Woo!
 
Kinda feels like a participation award for the 7 successor. Nothing about it isn't an S release, rather than getting a new model number. Naming it 8 sounds like purely marketing to make people think it's not very different from the 7 in the light of the X.
 
Radon87000 said:
Seems Apple doesnt want people with the lower tier LCD phones to think they are inferior to the iPhone X in any way and hence skipping the S moniker. Psychological marketing
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tipoo said:
Kinda feels like a participation award for the 7 successor. Nothing about it isn't an S release, rather than getting a new model number. Naming it 8 sounds like purely marketing to make people think it's not very different from the 7 in the light of the X.
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Gruber said on Daring Fireball a while back that if Apple changed the case design on the new mainline phone, like, say, giving it a glass back, then it would not be called the "7s", as they have only used the "s" appendage for "same case improved guts" models.

Making the mainline phone the "8" and the super-deluxe phone the "X" is probably reasonable, but is going to confuse the heck out of people who look back at the last 6 months of rumors at some point in the future - every reference to what they'll know as the "iPhone X" will instead say "iPhone 8" in the old rumors, while what they know as the "iPhone 8" will have been called the "7s" or various other names.

At least now I can say, with some confidence that in a few weeks I'll be getting an "iPhone 8" (the "X" will likely be great but likely not for me).
 
On Tuesday, NO ONE should be surprised if Apple announces an Image Sequence camera app ... think HEIF w/ HEVC-encoded Images / Image Sequences.

And, just like their Clips app trying to compete with Snap & Insta, their Image Sequence app will gain the attention of Media for just a few days, and then immediately fizzle !

Apple has NO advantage in developing apps ... in fact, they can't compete !

There is a fair chance third-party apps benefit (significantly) from the added Media attention on the particular camera sector, however.
 
Just call it the iPhone fantasy. Cuz you'll spend more time of the year fantasizing about getting it than actually using it.
 
JohnApples said:
Actually, there's a good chance that it will be officially pronounced "ex", to avoid making the 8 sound two full generations behind the X.
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HussamRaed said:
This year:

iPhone 8
iPhone 8 Plus
iPhone X

Apple's phone linup in the coming future.

iPhone Mini
(Previously SE, replaced by smaller iPhone X)

iPhone
(Previously "iPhone X")

iPhone Plus
(Previously iPhone 8 plus, replaced by bigger iPhone X)

They cant possibly keep going on with numerical scheme forever.
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Apple is doing away with minis, pluses, and airs very soon.

There will be Pro and non-Pro. Simple.

Mac - Mac Pro
MacBook - MacBook Pro
iPad - iPad Pro
iPhone - iPhone Pro
 
chromite said:
I'm only going to buy the iPhone X if it has a headphone jack, costs $850 for 128GB, and comes with free AirPods. Otherwise I'm just going to get the regular 8.

/s
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If that's the case then chances of you getting the 8 are just as great as chances of rain in Manchester today.
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Superhappytree said:
Both are pretty much similar, and the Pro model doesn't really have Pro features as such, just better hardware. I get your gist though.
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Isn't better hardware needed for professional work? Like video editing and stuff? As far as I know the difference between Mac Pro and regular Macs have always been on the specs.
 
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