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iPhone naming will have to be restarted soon. Purely from marketing I feel going from iPhone 14 to iPhone 15 doesn’t sound as impressive as going from iPhone to iPhone 2.

After a while these large numbers feel like minors on a software patch and not big leaps that drive sales from average consumers.

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Screaming into the void for years to stop using numbers for versioning (and codenames, my god, please send anyone who uses codenames directly into the core of the sun) and start using dates. iPhone 2017. Firefox 2022.05. Systemd 2022.04.23. Aaaaaaaaagh.

Isn’t Samsung selling Galaxy S 23 or something like that?

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