iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max

Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by eddieh on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:39PM (#20932674)

That's what I think is stupid. Roman numerals are stupid and make things inconsistently named. iPhone ten vs ecks-code.

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by sorum on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:54PM (#20932899)

Fair point. Once you start listing it out, you see how confusing they made it for users:

- OS X = "OS ten" - iphone X = "iphone ten" - Xcode = "ex-code"

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by bdcravens on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:59PM (#20932962)

Plus "XS" was "ten S"

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by stordoff on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @05:03PM (#20933715)

It's just occurred to me I never made that connection - every I know just calls it the XS (ecks-ess).

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by holy_city on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:37PM (#20933420)

Which always sounded like "iPhone tennis" to me

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by mike_d on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @03:50PM (#20932841)

I think it was a fun "throw back" to when they released OSX (the previous version was called OS 9).

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by dymk on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @07:56PM (#20946068)

"OSX" is pronounced "ozz-icks" :)

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by koyote on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @06:24PM (#20934490)

Huh, I always called it the iPhone Ecks.

I can't really think of a 'tech thing' with 'X' in the name that is not pronounced Ecks.

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by jsgo on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:50PM (#20933564)

They can call it what they want and I understand what they were going for, but it'll always be iPhone Ecks to me.

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Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max by closetohome on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:35PM (#20933395)

Shit, are we supposed to be pronouncing that "tencode"?

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