Re:Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed
by swampthinker on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:04AM
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There are now 4 phones consumers are supposed to be aware of. On top of the naming scheme being confusing, most people who asked me during the holidays think Xs is just a smaller version of the X.
Frankly X was just a dumb name.
Sounds like the people you know don't want to do entry level reading on a $1000 purchase.
Re:Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed
by washadjeffmad on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @01:29PM
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I don't know, would you intuit the model called the X or the XS (read: "excess") as being the bigger, better phone? How many others might have thought it was "Xtra Small"?
And even if you knew the XS was the refresh, would guess the XR preceeded or succeeded it? R comes before S, so maybe S is the newest?
Personally, the X naming feels like kind of a gaff.
Re:Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed
by swampthinker on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:13PM
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That's exactly right. It's normally a purchased through a carrier's 2 year upgrade plan, and the expectation has been simplicity.
Why are we suddenly expected to do more research on various models when part of the reason why the iPhone was successful was due to it's simplicity?
All of them.
> Which one has a home button still?
None of them.
> So whats the difference
<>S is the refresh, same as it's been for years. Max is the physically larger size, what used to be called the "Plus".
> These are questions I've heard over the holidays from friends and family, questions that were unthinkable when Jobs ran Apple.
I mean, Max/Plus is annoying, but I think Jobs was alive when iPhones refreshed with an S so this seems like a silly statement.