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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by oblio on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:11AM (#26914957)
Who's ever going to use the full date in the marketing material?

Apple never says iPad 2019 on their website, until you start digging really hard.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by nl on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:39PM (#26922067)
Exactly. This proves the point I'm making. No one - even Apple with the best supply chain management in the industry - wants the version scheme you suggest.

Vendors want version numbers to push upgrades to consumers. They don't want to deal with demand forcasting for something with a limited time of life though.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by oblio on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:56AM (#26923129)
Ummm... nice turning of my point on its head.

Nobody said that they have to make that versioning public and shout it from the rooftops.

Users do use the informal versioning that I mentioned, because otherwise they wouldn't be able to differentiate the products. I've heard "MacBook Pro 2015" a million times.

And a date <<is>> a version number. It also nicely auto-increments to prove to your customers that the latest thing is better than the old one.

Doodad Pro, 2021 edition. It's not that hard, as I was saying.

The alternative is the garbage that everyone is doing. WH-1000XM3, really?!?

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