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points by noosphr 2 days ago | 0 comments

The second iPhone was the 3g the third was the 3gs.

The second one was the first iPhone with 3G networking (which had broadly been considered a required feature for smartphones when the original iPhone was introduced without it.)

I won't try to defend the 3Gs ;)

[–] swiftcoder 1 day ago

At least the N, Ns naming scheme referred to straight-forward (albeit minor) upgrades, and were released a year apart...

[–] Cyph0n 2 days ago

Not to mention X and Xs.

[–] gleenn 2 days ago

And the fact that they skipped 9 and will likely skip iPhone 19 as well

[–] kijin 2 days ago

Microsoft skipped Window 9 too.

Samsung skipped an entire range of numbers from Galaxy S 11 to 19.

Looks like tech companies don't like 9...

[–] tiagod 2 days ago

Supposedly Microsoft skipped 9 because of a lot of hardcoded checks for windows 95 and 98 that checked the first digit

[–] tedd4u 2 days ago

And the iPhone XR! All part of the twelfth-gen models. Of course the subsequent thirteenth-gen models were just called "iPhone 11" in a return to sanity.

[–] mahboi 1 day ago

I still don't remember what X vs XR vs XS meant. Of course I can look it up, but that's not the point.