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product names

  1. B S Magnet

    Naming creep? “Mac Studio M1 Ultra” & “MacBook Pro 16 M1 Pro” are the new “Performa 6400/200 Video Editing Edition” & “PowerBook 1400cs/166”. Discuss.

    When Jobs was re-hired by the company in 1997, Apple’s products — Mac and Newton both — had splayed across a mess of different naming conventions meant to describe the product’s specific features within the title itself. This often left the casual shopper at the mercy of someone who could break...