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by llm_nerd 288 days ago
They often discard with the version number for the first release of a product bifurcating, and from then on it follows its own version path.

The first Apple Watch Ultra wasn't the Apple Watch Series 8 Ultra. Subsequent Ultras follow their own versioning. The same with the SE, Air Pod Pros, iPad Air, and so on.
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djfdat 288 days ago
Yeah, the next one wouldn't be the iPhone 18 Air, it would be the iPhone Air 2.
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aurareturn 288 days ago
Yea, that'd make no sense in my opinion. Calling it iPhone Air 2 and then iPhone 18 Pro Max. Just confuses people.
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llm_nerd 288 days ago
Yet that's precisely what Apple has done repeatedly across product lines. Just yesterday they introduced the Apple Watch Series 11, and its low cost variant the Apple Watch SE 3. They also introduced the ruggedized larger variant the Ultra 3.
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mrheosuper 287 days ago
>Apple has done repeatedly across product lines

But there is no macbook pro 2, macbook air 2, or iphone se 2

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