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Have Apple shot themselves in the foot with their iPhone naming conventions?

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2013: iPhone 5S + iPhone 5C

2014: iPhone 6 + iPhone 6C? 5CS?

2015: iPhone 6S + iPhone 6CS? 6C?

The only other option is to only bring-out a C version every two years with the S version to replace the previous numbered version; i.e.:

2014: 6 + 5C

2015: 6S + 6C

2016: 7 + 6C

2017: 7S + 7C

Etc.
 
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My guess is as follows:

2014 - The 5s will go away and there will be a 6. The 5c will get a spec bump and remain a cheaper 2nd option.

2015 - The 6 will go away and there will be a 6s. The 6c will be the new cheaper 2nd option with likely minor spec bump.
 
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Names are not important but function and speed now you got something no matter what it is called.
Not crazy about the new Mac OS being called Mavericks but you can bet I will buy it do to function and speed.
 

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I was never really very good at solving algebraic equations........ ;P
 

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Instead of Mavericks they should call it Rifleman in honor of that old TV show with Chuck Conners with that MEAN look when the show first starts. That face made me scared as a kid!

OSX Rifleman! :D

Hey why not? Maverick was a Ford that had many issues! :D
 
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Instead of Mavericks they should call it Rifleman in honor of that old TV show with Chuck Conners with that MEAN look when the show first starts. That face made me scared as a kid!

OSX Rifleman! :D

Hey why not? Maverick was a Ford that had many issues! :D

Worse than Pinto?
 

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Hey why not? Maverick was a Ford that had many issues!

I don't know Dennis, they could have named it "Edsel" instead. ;P
 

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OSSX stole my come back but yes Pinto! I would rather have an Edsel! :D Grin!
 
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To Ford's defense I would take a GT500 aka Shelby Cobra any day that is a nice muscle car then and especially now.
My second option the HEMI Cuda.
 
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As I said before OS X.9 should have been named Cougar but Hollywood made a mess of that name!
 

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To Ford's defense I would take a GT500 aka Shelby Cobra any day that is a nice muscle car then and especially now.
My second option the HEMI Cuda.

Off topic but will say I do not hate all fords, just that Pinto really for that defect it had. Felt the Maverick was not best either. GT500 Shelby Cobra was a Monster!

Anyway back to the iPhone Names. I really do not have issues with 3g, 3Gs, 4, 4s ect as names for their phones.
 
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At least the big number ie: 3,4,5,6, gives us a good idea in what year the iPhone was released, and from there, i couldnt care less in how they call them, as long as there is a clear difference in the Model numbers/letters to differentiate from the actual iPhone Models.

Samsung are doing it with there flagship Phone S1, S2, S3, S4, and the S5 which will be 64bit so says the CEO 18hrs after Apple release the details on the 5s.
That made me laugh, but i bet they have no idea where they are going with the 64Bit, where Apple obviously does as this would of been in the pipeline for some time . . .

But to answer the OP's Thread title i say NO, they aren't shooting themselves in the foot what so ever, but i dont think we will see a iPhone 10
 

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Agreed completely with TattooedMac!
 
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Oh trust me, Samsung will produce a chip that is technically "64-bit." You know they have TEAMS of people with microscopes autopsying the iPhone 5s right now.

But their "64-bit" chip (at least the first version) will be poor. They currently have quad-core chips with twice the RAM of the iPhone 5 (not 5s, just plain old 5) and the 5 still beats them with dual-core and half the RAM.

Anyway, as for Mavericks: Apple already 'splained this one, but let me 'splain it better:

OS X is actually dead. 10.9 could have (should have) been called 11. They're keeping the brand name as long as possible, but Mavericks is (and they already said this) the building blocks of the NEXT decade of releases, all of which will be named after places in California.
 
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I believe there will always be an iPhone as well as the C version. The C version will have internal parts from the last model in order to keep naming easy. So, next in line for the iPhones will be the iPhone 6(new internal parts) and iPhone 6C(internal parts from the current 5S). After that it will be iPhone 6S(new internal parts) and iPhone 6C(internal parts from the 6).

This seems very simple to me. Anything else just leads to more naming than needed. Not maintaing the C with internal parts from the previous generation is too foolish.
 
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2013: iPhone 5S + iPhone 5C

2014: iPhone 6 + iPhone 6C? 5CS?

2015: iPhone 6S + iPhone 6CS? 6C?

The only other option is to only bring-out a C version every two years with the S version to replace the previous numbered version; i.e.:

2014: 6 + 5C

2015: 6S + 6C

2016: 7 + 6C

2017: 7S + 7C

Etc.

At least they stayed away from B ;)
 
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2013: iPhone 5S + iPhone 5C

2014: iPhone 6 + iPhone 6C? 5CS?

2015: iPhone 6S + iPhone 6CS? 6C?

The only other option is to only bring-out a C version every two years with the S version to replace the previous numbered version; i.e.:

2014: 6 + 5C

2015: 6S + 6C

2016: 7 + 6C

2017: 7S + 7C

Etc.

I dunno. To me I think it would make better sense to have:

6+5S

6S + 6C

7+6S

etc.

Seeing that they had 5+4S (+4, if you include the $0 8GB model).

However, if they keep the color line open for future iterations, then perhaps C is only a one model year thing - what else would C stand for?
 
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The C version will have internal parts from the last model in order to keep naming easy...iPhone 6C(internal parts from the current 5S)...iPhone 6C(internal parts from the 6).

This seems very simple to me.
We obviously have different definitions of "simple". Having two iPhones numbered 6C (a 5S & a 6 version), followed by two numbered 7C (a 6S & a 7 version) seems very confusing to me...
 
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OS X is actually dead. 10.9 could have (should have) been called 11. They're keeping the brand name as long as possible, but Mavericks is (and they already said this) the building blocks of the NEXT decade of releases, all of which will be named after places in California.
That's the thing with an arbitrary naming system (if they'd not wanted to hang-on to the OS X brand for so long Mavericks would be Mac OS 19).

I think the reason why they've chosen the slightly awkward-sounding name of Mavericks, is because it sounds a bit rebellious & different, and that's just what it's meant to be; it's not the first generation of the next decade of Mac operating systems, it's the prototype for them, building on the success of OS X before moving-on to something genuinely innovative & different (not an ideal example, but kinda like how the very first "Developer Preview" of Windows 8 was actually just Windows 7 with the "Metro" interface on top of it), Mac OS 11-0.1 as it were.

I can see them keeping the "X" branding too, but it'll probably stop meaning ten; next year's Mac OS will probably be OSX (no space) 11, pronounced "Oh Ess Ex eleven". That's my theory on where they're going with the Mac OS version numbers, anyway...
 

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