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No capitalization on the s?
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Because it looks like SS. It's easier to distinguish. 5s or 5S. And to keep form, the c is lower case to match s and not to make it appear more important than the s.
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What do you mean? People have used upper and lower case S since the 4s. I've always called it 4S. Uppercase put's emphasis on the S. 
Good question. It seems like even on the Apple website both the 5s and 5c are listed in lower case.
You're right, I didn't realize the C was lower case as well. But this is actually a serious question, because we know how particular Apple is about things.
But in the logos for the phones on Apple.com, they do have the S capitalized. Just not when referring to it everywhere else.
The 4S has been retrospectively rebranded the 4s as well.
I think it was so that the 5s wasn't confused with SS or S5 or 55, and to be consistent they changed the 5c and 4s as well.
I think it was so that the 5s wasn't confused with SS or S5 or 55, and to be consistent they changed the 5c and 4s as well.
People will really complain about anything won't they But yeah, it looks strange for the S cos it looks like you're saying multiple iPhone Fives rather than iPhone Five S.
But yeah, it looks strange for the S cos it looks like you're saying multiple iPhone Fives rather than iPhone Five S.
So THAT's why the S is lowercase...
Apologies in advance if this has been realized before me, but I'm slow and I just realized that if Apple had given their new flagship phones the title of 'iPhone 5S', writing/printing it would be too hard to distinguish from 5 and S in some cases, so they went with 5s, which is probably easier to read.
My question is, will this naming scheme continue? iPhone 6S or iPhone 6s? Personally the lowercase 's' is starting to look more natural to me.
Apologies in advance if this has been realized before me, but I'm slow and I just realized that if Apple had given their new flagship phones the title of 'iPhone 5S', writing/printing it would be too hard to distinguish from 5 and S in some cases, so they went with 5s, which is probably easier to read.
My question is, will this naming scheme continue? iPhone 6S or iPhone 6s? Personally the lowercase 's' is starting to look more natural to me.
I don't think it really matters. I think Apple uses the LC s because with the logo's box around the letter, it is smaller than the 5. So it's closer to the logo. Even as a copy editor, I could care less about this in a world where "literally" now can mean the same thing as "figuratively" be cause so many idiots wronged it all the way to the dictionary.
It's "s& 8419;" (decimal)
I think you should be able to cut and paste it as-is, too.
http://www.unicodemap.org/details/0x20E3/index.html
Thanks! Yeah, just wanted to know if it was indeed Unicode or something forum/MR-board-specific.
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