Can someone educated here please help me correct my wife? She thinks iphone 10 was just released because she sees an "X" and is thinking Roman numeral. iphone 8 YES, I phone 8 Plus Yes, and I phone X Yes, but this X designation does not mean Apple has an iphone 10 in line up with the new Iphone 8 models. Please correct her so I can win my free meal this Friday🙂
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No iphone 10. Please explan to my wife.
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Uhhh, it is the iPhone 10. It's not referred to as the iPhone "ex", it's referred to as the iPhone "ten".
JamieLannister
macrumors 6502a
Tell her the X = $1150 USD plus taxes. 1st world problems I see....
titrau
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No No No. Your all wrong. Apple would never be so stupid to release iphone 10 to compete with new release iphone 8. The notion of even thinking such a thing is absurd. It's "X" as in "the X Men or X box. Neither of which mean the number 10. Looks like all of you we're fooled just like her🙂
redheeler
macrumors G3
She's right actually, X is the Roman numeral for 10. So it's pronounced iPhone Ten. Apple has done this before, for example OS X was the name for the OS on the Mac, really pronounced OS Ten.
Edit: If you still doubt it, watch today's keynote. Clearly pronounced as iPhone Ten.
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Well, I guess we're all screwed when the iphone 9 gets released. (I don't want an iphone 9 when the iphone 10 has been in circulation for 2 years. Sounds like a marketing blunder to me.
DeltaMac
macrumors G5
Yes - you can review today's announcement video, if you like, but the iPhone X was pronounced very clearly as "iPhone Ten", so X is, in fact, Ten.
I would expect the replacement for the iPhone 8 to be an iPhone 9.
And, the new model is not an iPhone 10. The name is iPhone X, pronounced "iPhone Ten", so iPhone 9, IMHO, could still be used by the model sold to the "common folk"
Hard to guess where Apple will go with the naming convention now 😀
I would expect the replacement for the iPhone 8 to be an iPhone 9.
And, the new model is not an iPhone 10. The name is iPhone X, pronounced "iPhone Ten", so iPhone 9, IMHO, could still be used by the model sold to the "common folk"
Hard to guess where Apple will go with the naming convention now 😀
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Then why buy the iphone 9 in two years when it's released? What kind of gorilla marketing is that?
Apple_Robert
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You could always buy the 9, get a case, and write 10 on the back.
Whats more important, what the phone can do, or that it is iPhone 8,9, or X?
oplix
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Arran
macrumors 603
Nah, just enjoying a bit of levity.
Apple's a great company, but sometimes they take themselves a little too seriously. Balance is good.
Can't tell if you mean gorilla or guerrilla? Anyway I think that would be next year if anything. S models seem to be over.
HEK
macrumors 68040
Any bets on what Samsung will number their next phone. You just know they gonna skip ahead.
JamieLannister
macrumors 6502a
HEK
macrumors 68040
Need has nothing to do with it. Koreans are all about one upsmanship. Stay tuned, I bet they skip a number or two.
And no, the screens and chips and any other components Apple buys from Samsung are not hand me downs. Sales to Apple represent a big profit center for Samsung. Apple specs out and integrates these components, not accepting inferior to spec parts.
Marketing, the BS hype we hear from both side will continue. But have no doubt that Samsung wants to hang onto component sales to Apple.
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JPack
macrumors P6
There won't be an iPhone 9. The 8 is the final generation of that form factor.
The iPhone X is the new form factor. X, 11, 12, etc.
