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fucking hell are we really at number 15? Are they just going to keep going with this naming scheme until the iPhone 1523?
Firefox 114: "First time?"
extra annoying because in software we have semantic versioning which is objectively better for all purposes other than marketing.
Semantic versioning isn't useful for all kinds of software. Plenty intentionally choose to not use it. Look at the Linux kernel, for example.
You simply cant win. People make fun of Xbox fand Windows for having non sequential names, and iPhone gets berated for having a naming scheme that's sensical, easy to follow and date
Yup, out of all the things I hate about Apple, their iPhone's naming scheme is something I wish other brands would follow (including Apple with thier other devices).
Apple iPad on the other hand, is a completely mess.
To OP, what's wrong with sequential names? I look at an iphone and i know exactly when they were released and their relative performance to other iphone models. Why is it a bad thing?
Remember the New iPad, or the 3rd gen iPad as literally everyone called it?
Apple did try to simplify in the same way they did with Macs, but then they fragmented the iPad line so much that it was difficult to keep up, so now you have "12.9" 2022 iPad Pro" as opposed to "5th gen iPad Air".
Still, it's better than the abominations that Sony come out with. Looking at you, WH-1000XM4 headphones, or Bravia KD55X75WL (2023).
Samsung went straight from S10 to S20.
that makes a lot more sense, it looks better and you get the well-proven benefit of bigger numbers.
Eventually you get to S3000 and that's when you know you've made it
I'm not buying another Samsung until it's over 9000.
Samsung Galaxy S I9000 is released in 2010. Or the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 in 2013.
I think samsung is going with the year as the name now. They skipped to s20, but then have going with s21 s22 s23 etc.
Samsung made it so the model number would match the year it was released.
Having worked internally to Samsung at that time, I can confidently say, no, it isn’t. They did it so that their number wouldn’t be behind apples anymore.
They are halfway to iPhone XXX
A few more than that if you count the S versions.