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Re:iPad 9.7‑inch by giarc on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @10:03AM (#13922243)
It's because their naming conventions have gone out the window.

When it was iPhone 4, 4S, 5, 5S you knew where on the product timeline your phone was. Now it's iPad Air, Air 2, 9.7 Pro, 9.7, 12.9 Pro, mini 4. It's all over the place.

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Re:iPad 9.7‑inch by apricot on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @07:36AM (#13930086)
When Jobs came back to Apple, there was a similar chaos regarding the Macintosh models. Lots of numbers, letters, and qualifiers, and the purpose of a new model was seldom clear.

He canceled the majority of them -- the "great extinction" of 1998 is plainly visible on the image at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Macintosh_models .

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Re:iPad 9.7‑inch by lvh on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @11:38AM (#13923152)
The phone is a little unique in that sense. iPads or Macs not disclosing their specific version number is not new. When you got an iPad 3, it just said "iPad".
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