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iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co)
Veteran journalist Om Malik writes: iPhoneXsMax -- When I heard the name and saw it up on the stage, I shuddered. Apple's name for its newest, biggest iPhone made one [Microsoft employee] quip on Twitter: "And I thought we sucked at naming. #AppleEvent iPhone Xs Max September Refresh CTP1"
Microsoft and other technology companies were mocked by Apple veterans for their naming conventions. But now Apple is doing the same -- fighting hard to come up with names that are fighting Samsung, Huawei, and many others when it comes to being tongue twisters. It is pretty sad to see that a company that took pride in its ability to communicate clearly and succinctly about its products, the company that was able to name them with such elan and made them memorable, has come. iPhoneX(s)Max.
Microsoft and other technology companies were mocked by Apple veterans for their naming conventions. But now Apple is doing the same -- fighting hard to come up with names that are fighting Samsung, Huawei, and many others when it comes to being tongue twisters. It is pretty sad to see that a company that took pride in its ability to communicate clearly and succinctly about its products, the company that was able to name them with such elan and made them memorable, has come. iPhoneX(s)Max.
It has a whole zero syllables more than "Galaxy Note 9"
Great job Apple
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
its pronounced as "iPhone Excess" or "iPhone Excess Max".
I find it rather petty to complain about the naming convention, Xs Plus would have been more logical to me, but Xs Max isn't really worse, just different.
The area that does disappoint me however (and I am a longtime generally happy Apple user), is that even by the incremental improvement standard set by the "s" phone releases, this one does seem a particularly timid nano-incremental improvement. Screen, camera and processing are a bit better, and I think that's about it. Nothing really fresh.
The Apple Watch v4, now that had an interesting and substantial innovation: the ECG/EKG function in a small device for general consumer use. Now that was cool and points to the future of the Apple watch becoming more and more a complete health monitor / coach.
Sadly, I didn't see anything fresh like that in the current new phones. The XR could be ok to replace my relatively old 6 Plus for price reasons, but I hope that my current phone holds out another year to see what the next generation brings.
Still better if the manufacturer has too few words to compose names and uses them ALL. Especially when looking for the firmware for *your* model...
Sony Xperia Pro
Sony Xperia Mini
Sony Xperia Mini Pro
Sony Xperia X10 Mini
Sony Xperia X10 Pro
Sony Xperia X10 Mini Pro
Xiaomi Mi 5
Xiaomi Mi 5s
Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus
Xiaomi Mi 5X
Xiaomi Redmi 5
Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus
Xiaomi Redmi 5A
Xiaomi Note 5A
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro
Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 AI Dual Camera
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You forgot to mention the lack of a 1/8" (3.5mm) headphone jack.
Cut them some slack, this ain't about what the iPhone Xs Max lacks, Jack.
In fairness, there's still not much fragmentation among iPhones/iPads. The big difference is basically just screen resolution, and the event yesterday suggests they're pushing toward 3 sizes of the same aspect ratio. It's not even clear you need to worry much about the difference between the iPhone X and the iPhone XR, since the XR seems to be similar in size but lower resolution. Your UI elements can just be displayed at a lower resolution.
But more importantly, there's basically 1 iOS. There are 50 different vendors struggling to differentiate their own version of iOS. While Android vendors often don't let users upgrade to the latest version of Android, Apple's pretty good at pushing people to keep their devices update, so developers can mostly focus on making sure their app runs on the latest version of iOS.
And when you complain about the "iPhone Xs Max SE Plus Rose Gold Special Edition", I don't know why the color matters at all.
There's still things to complain about with Apple, but it still doesn't seem very fragmented, compared to Android at least.
To each their own. I use my wired headphones all the time with my iPhone. Used to have a Bluetooth earpiece; switched to headphones because I prefer them. Better sound quality and no batteries to maintain. I have enough stuff to keep charged up; I need less not more. Oh... I also use the cigarette lighter in my car - to keep my freakin' phone charged up and to run my dedicated nav device (which works in places a phone-based nav doesn't). Used to use it to keep my Bluetooth earpiece charged up, but I switched to wired headphones that don't need battery maintenance. I want to simplify my life, not complicate it.
I find myself saying the name of my phone a whole zero times daily. I'm far more concerned about things like the actual functionality of a phone than the name. If it does what I need it to do, they can name it whatever they like and it really doesn't matter one bit to me.