I would be very interested to hear what you think, when does the naming of iPhone models start to sound stupid? iPhone 15 still sounds like an appropriate product name. What about the iPhone 16? iPhone 17, 18, 19 already sounds funny, at least to me. iPhone 20 in particular. It is inevitable that Apple will change the naming soon. It would be interesting to hear what kind of theories you have about it. And when do you think it will happen?
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Numbers are straightforward, and we always referred to iPods as "nth gen" unofficially anyways. It's the "XR", "SE", "Max", "Pro", "Ultra" stuff that gets cumbersome and annoying to keep track of.
I remember people talking about this 10 years ago... "Surely we wouldn't have an iPhone 15, would we? It sounds so odd." Here we are 10 years later, and it doesn't sound so odd after all. While "iPhone 27" may sound odd now, I suspect it won't sound so odd by the time it rolls around.
That being said, I think they should eventually drop the number and just call it "iPhone" or "iPad". If you want to refer to a specific model, then use the year...like how they do with their Macs. There'll likely be a point where the iterative updates are so small, I don't think it would make sense to keep differentiating them by number. Though, I suppose that could be a marketing tactic to get people to keep upgrading... "Omg, the iPhone 31 is out? My iPhone 29 is so old!"
Or at least sync the number with the year, like Samsung does now. So next year's iPhone would be "iPhone 24". Then there would be some sort of meaning behind the number.
That being said, I think they should eventually drop the number and just call it "iPhone" or "iPad". If you want to refer to a specific model, then use the year...like how they do with their Macs. There'll likely be a point where the iterative updates are so small, I don't think it would make sense to keep differentiating them by number. Though, I suppose that could be a marketing tactic to get people to keep upgrading... "Omg, the iPhone 31 is out? My iPhone 29 is so old!"
Or at least sync the number with the year, like Samsung does now. So next year's iPhone would be "iPhone 24". Then there would be some sort of meaning behind the number.