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How Apple names things
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Re: How Apple names things
#92This reads like some typical fanboi stuff. There are a lot of things to also hate about apples naming schemes, just look at the pro, max, se nonsense they cooked up. Also the naming scheme of Mac OS versions, i can never figure out which one came before or after the other, there is no rhyme or reason. Why dont they use alphabetical sorted names? Or years/numbers like Windows…?
1, 2, 3, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11
vs
10.0, 10.1,...,10.15,11,12,13
Re: How Apple names things
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's fun about SE, XR and XDR?
I don’t think anyone has said that Apple never used bad names…? But I don’t think it is radical to say (atleast among us who works with branding) that ipod, mac, powerbook, macbook, itunes, airpods, etc. are strong names.
Frankly all the i-devices are just bad naming.
The products themselves were/are great but their names are really bad.
"I phone" kind of works, but "I pod"? "I pad"? Really? :-)
Re: How Apple names things
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
> * Also the naming scheme of Mac OS versions, i can never figure out which one came before or after the other, there is no rhyme or reason. Why dont they use alphabetical sorted names? Or years/numbers like Windows…?* They do. Ventura is macOS 13. In fact, when they dropped OS X, they did a bit in the key note explaining that instead of it being OS X 10.16 Catalina, it would now now be macOS 11 Catalina. See > Abo…
But did Mojave come before or after Sierra? The cat names were more memorable and spanned a longer time line instead of being yearly releases.
10.14 came after 10.12
Re: How Apple names things
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is not true: when some good logic is applied to naming, human names are too in order, with the alphabetic order, so that at any time you could know what you are talking about (at least easily if it is "before" or "after" each one)
> when some good logic is applied to naming, human names are too in order, with the alphabetic order, so that at any time you could know what you are talking about That's just like, your opinion. Even operating systems that try to follow that idea are not fully able to do it. For example, Ubuntu has been using alphabetically ordered names ever since version 5.10, which was released in October 2005. But sooner or late…
> But sooner or later they have to wrap. And they already did that once.
Frankly, that's not a problem. They have 26 letters to go through, so that's 13 years.
13 years is a geological age in computing. By that point the previous product has been deprecated for so long it's basically a museum piece and nobody can spot it in the wild.
Re: How Apple names things
#96Apple's system strikes an interesting contrast to Google's system for naming products, documented at [1]. [1] https://bonkersworld.net/naming-dartboard
If Google is so good, why haven't they made Google 2 eh?
Re: How Apple names things
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah yes - Go -> A programming language created by Google Google Go -> An android app to help you search Android Go -> A lightweight version of Android created by Google.
AlphaGo -> AI system from a Google sibling playing: Go. Go -> an ancient board game
But was it written in Go?
Re: How Apple names things
#98I always wonder why, out of all the mobile products, is the Apple Watch the only one not called the iWatch? iPod, iMac, iPhone, iPad ... Apple Watch? Feels like somewhere along the line they decided that naming all their products something with the letter 'i' was silly and dropped it.
It's also the AppleTV, not iTV (but that might be to avoid battling it out with ITV, a TV station). With the exception of the iMac, there's also only Mac computers. Really there's only the iMac, iPad and iPhone left with the i prefix.
It was announced as iTV and then ITV noticed and it was released as Apple TV.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
At this point, whenever anything Apple-related comes to HN front page, I can bring up a bingo card with pre-canned responses and cover at least 80% of conversation. Same with go fanboyism/hate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23003595
This is poetry!
Re: How Apple names things
#100This reads like some typical fanboi stuff. There are a lot of things to also hate about apples naming schemes, just look at the pro, max, se nonsense they cooked up. Also the naming scheme of Mac OS versions, i can never figure out which one came before or after the other, there is no rhyme or reason. Why dont they use alphabetical sorted names? Or years/numbers like Windows…?
This page merely contains a graph of the product names taxonomy and four short sentences to explain why/how they created the graph, so we must have a very different definition of what typical fanboi stuff is.