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by Karsteski 1445 days ago
It really does seem very cult-like with the way Apple wants everyone to change up English for their product specifically...
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If you think this is changing up English, you may not be speaking English as a first language? Referring to products as a proper noun is very common. E.g. Ford will tell you "Mustang offers a powerful engine... blah blah blah" not "The Mustang offers..."
https://www.ford.com/cars/mustang/

> Hear the roar of a Mustang as the ground starts to tremble and your legs start to shake. As always, Mustang draws upon its performance roots with features for enhanced handling, high-powered engine options and a classic Mustang design. For 2022, the soul-stirring Mustang Mach 1 and Mach 1 Premium stand at the pinnacle of 5.0L performance. The personally customizable Mach 1 continues its legacy, engineered specifically for quick turns and spirited drives.

Confusingly, they use Mustang both with an article and without.

English is my first language, and yes to me that sentence would sound odd. Perhaps that's something common in American advertisement and not elsewhere
Maybe it's just that I'm a car guy, and I watch a lot of presentations about cars. They constantly refer to their models like this. Like it's a person, not an object.