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Comment by WiseWeasel | Hacker News Reader

It looks like they're just calling it "iPad" now on their website. It's an interesting idea; maybe they plan on always calling the current one "iPad", and renaming the old model something like "iPad 2012" once the 2013 "iPad" is released.

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The lack of a numbering scheme is a royal pain in the ass when googling bugs or trying to find pretty much any information about a specific model.

Although admittedly we already have that with most of their other devices ("do i have an early 2011 MB or was it the mid-2010?") and it's not like other vendors are much better in this regard.

I guess it helps that the iPad is on a yearly release schedule, as opposed to their Mac products.

There is a model identifier, it's just hidden in the system profiler (Mid 2011 air is MacBookAir4,2)

I also think that the naming convention is gonna stick for a while.

It's what they've always done. The "iPad 2" was always officially just called the "iPad" as well. My friend won one in a raffle, and we scoured the box looking at whether it was the new "iPad 2" or not. It never mentioned the "2" anywhere, but we eventually realized from the device's shape that it was the 2.

Apples call it the "iPad 2" on their online store.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad

(look at the bottom of the page)

They don't say 'MacBook Air 4', just 'MacBook Air'. I think this is to unify that naming scheme.

As people have pointed out, this is essentially how things like MacBooks work. I happen to know I have a “mid-2010” MacBook, but that isn’t printed on it anywhere and the average user would never know. It’s not a MacBook 7S or whatever.

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