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Appl3FTW

Appl3FTW

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I’m confused... why didn’t they name XC? I know marketing it isn’t logical to name it after a less than stellar nominer but still...

R for Regular?

I’m almost inclined to say it should’ve been called... XB, B for basic. Or XP, P for peasant.

Lmao
 
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or reduced? ;) I have no idea...
but I am curious as well if any one has an idea...
 
Appl3FTW said:
I’m confused... why didn’t they name XC? I know marketing it isn’t logical to name it after a less than stellar nominer but still...

R for Regular?
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Have you learned nothing from 2013’s ill fated iPhone 5C?

But yeah, I call the XR...regular.
 
Appl3FTW said:
That’s a lil bit of a stretch bruh lol R before S?
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R is literally the letter before S. Things that come before something else usually aren't as advanced as the next thing. iPhone 8 was the next step, the more advanced product after iPhone 7. iPhone XS is the next step, the more advanced product after XR.
 
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xxray said:
R is literally the letter before S. Things that come before something else usually aren't as advanced as the next thing. iPhone 8 was the next step, the more advanced product after iPhone 7. iPhone XS is the next step, the more advanced product after XR.
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They screwed up royally calling X as “ten” last year. It should’ve been iPhone X as X the alphabet and not the numeral. That’s because it’s a special 10th anniversary edition so it can have it’s own name. Hell I call mines X. Then this year is right, XS and XS Max are good follow up iterations.... now that I think about it XR makes sense because it’s actually the same edge to edge so I guess it deserves the X name. But what happen next year with the redesigned phone?
 
Maybe it's reasonable, cuz I'm thinking that price is the closest to any kind of reason.
 
Surfer13134 said:
Reused as they are reusing all the old parts of the last gen iPhones to make a "New" iphone.
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But it uses the same parts as the Xs: A12 processor, same camera (only one of them), etc. Other than the screen, it is effectively the same hardware (and even the screen is brand new).
 
Appl3FTW said:
I’m confused... why didn’t they name XC? I know marketing it isn’t logical to name it after a less than stellar nominer but still...

R for Regular?

I’m almost inclined to say it should’ve been called... XB, B for basic. Or XP, P for peasant.

Lmao
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Part of me wonders if they plan a smaller XC later (~5.1”, so smaller than a X but larger than the SE) so they reserved the name.
 
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