iPhone names will hit a wall in 2019 CNET

On Monday, Apple is expected to announce large adjustments with iOS 13, its software for iPhones and iPads. Whatever Tim Cook and Co. Announce at Apple's annual WWDC developer conference should hint at what's the come for the next new batch of iPhones to reach this year, from new perks like the usage of your iPhone apps for your Mac to logo-new core apps for iPhone. One element iOS thirteen in all likelihood might not monitor approximately the following foremost iPhone is its name. The thought really puzzles me: What comes after the iPhone XS and iPhone XR?

I recognize, I understand, who cares approximately a cellphone call, proper? It's proper down there with shade at the lowest of the list of things you ought to care about. And yet, like colour, cellphone names absolutely count -- to Apple, and on a deeper degree, in all likelihood to you, too. Names are tools that brands use to lure buyers and convey certain values and traits approximately the factor they're promoting. IPhone XS, satisfactory. IPhone XYZ or iPhone XX, bad. And in case you need extra convincing, just peek at our gallery of 30 worst cellphone names beneath. There are a few pretty extraordinary missteps.

For Apple specially, the future of the iPhone X line is essential because it represents a new iPhone generation. The iPhone X is the tool that shook off the yoke of the bodily domestic button and went all-screen. It's the iPhone that charged ahead with at ease face liberate, a characteristic that Android rivals nevertheless can not compete with nearly three years later. Never forget that the iPhone X is likewise the telephone that made it almost normal to pay $1,000 for a smartphone. The "X" is not only a call, it is a thing that defines Apple's iPhone future.

Would Apple simply call its subsequent telephone the iPhone 11 (as we do for ease and a widespread sense of chronology)? Or wouldn't it make more feel to stick with the X subject, and in that case, then how -- iPhone X2 and X2S? Or is that the iPhone XI? Would that make 2020's phone the iPhone XIS? Of direction now not.

Part of the problem is that the iPhone "X" name is already confusing. It looks one manner, however sounds some other. Apple calls it the iPhone "ten," however you name it the iPhone "extra," "ex are" and "extra max."

The problem started out in2019 while Apple omitted the iPhone 9 to release the iPhone 8, 8 Plus and a "10," its 10th-anniversary cellphone. But in so naming the iPhone X -- and following it up with three extra "X" phones in2019 -- Apple has created a ripple impact that makes me surprise what the plan is subsequent. (I've made similar arguments here and here.) 

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Here's another idea. Apple may want to absolutely name its new phone the "iPhone X (2020)." Apple has finished this earlier than with iPads and MacBooks and even though we do not find it irresistible, we have found out to just accept it, although it does create mass confusion. ("Which iPhone do you have?" "Uh, the iPhone?")

Apple can also simply carry on with its carefree new naming conference or throw us for a loop and in the end carry the iPhone circle of relatives in line with Apple's love of California geological name-locations and phone its subsequent flagship cellphone the iPhone Tahoe, to mirror MacOS High Sierra. With Apple, anything is possible.

I omit the nice and cozy truth of a logical naming shape, in which S's observe integers and all is well inside the universe. As some distance as destiny iPhone names cross now, it is nonetheless a courageous -- and difficult -- new world.

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Originally published Sept. 16,2019, and up to date maximum these days June 2, 2019, at 4 a.M. PT.

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