Interesting is the name of the new phone, iPhone X, which everyone in Apple speaks starting with Tim Cook, "iPhone Ten", and they did not call it iPhone 9 as required by the arrangement of the iPhone series of products.

Did you know that Microsoft also skipped the number 9 when naming the Windows version? So what is the relationship between Apple and Microsoft against the number 9? And why do they skip it in their main products? What is the impact of the number nine on the public? What is the significance of this number from the perspective of numerology? Many questions and more explanations on this subject filled with many Arab and foreign websites!

For example, Apple launched this label to match the iOS 10 operating system, or on the occasion of the ten-year anniversary of the first iPhone, or it provided the iPhone 8 and not the 7s because Samsung launched the S8, or perhaps the company would benefit from marketing the product with these The label as mentioned by Microsoft or otherwise.

As for Windows 10, not 9, perhaps one of the reasons is Windows 95 and Windows 98, and this is due to software details that forced programmers to skip the number 9 to save time and effort, as mentioned by a Microsoft developer.

In the next lines, we will take a look at these terms that Apple calls its products and the significance of each term.

It all started with Apple's Lisa.

"Lisa" is the first computer introduced by Apple in January 1983, that is, one year before the production of the Macintosh. Its price was 9,995 dollars, and the storage capacity of its hard disk was 5 MB !! And this name at the time was considered one of the strangest technological names in history, as this device was named after his son Steve Jobs "Lisa".

Macintosh

Then appeared "Macintosh" and this name refers to one of the apples, and this type of apple is really called "McIntosh" without the letter "a" and Apple changed the letters of the word to avoid any legal case against it from the American laboratory "McIntosh" for the manufacture of audio equipment, which Founded in 1949.

The "Macintosh" was launched on January 24, 1984 with a memory of 128 kilobytes, and it was the first successful personal computer. One of its advantages is that it is equipped with a graphical user interface and a mouse instead of the black command interface "DOS" common at that time. Then, Apple introduced multiple models of the Mac, some with clear and understandable names such as "Mac mini" and others around it with question marks and exclamation marks such as Mac IIVX and Mac IIVI, which is a group of Latin numbers and may mean "the path of creativity."

There are also names that are more ambiguous than others, for example if someone says to you I have a "MacBook" then you will not know which type is talking. Is the type that was produced in 2006 with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor or that was introduced at the end of 2006 or that was introduced In 2009 with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor as well, or the new type Apple is selling today?

There are also multiple models of the PowerBook Duo that Apple launched since the beginning of the nineties, and these devices are based on Motorola 68x processors, and the names of these devices depend on the dates or version numbers only.

Years and seasons

Apple device users tend to name Mac devices after the years and dates in which they were launched, for example 2009 Mac mini to 2014 Mac mini.

In other products such as the iPad and the iPod, it is always referred to by the product series (mini or pro) rather than the season or year of launch.

We review some of the notable products that can help us understand the naming of the iPhone X.

It is believed that Apple launched the name "iPhone ten" in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the production of the first iPhone, although it is Apple's habit in any previous memory not to provide devices on the occasion of the passage of a number of years What happened to this iPhone?

The closest we get to is the 550th anniversary of the Macintosh was the Macintosh LC560 and the Macintosh 1994, which were launched in February 6100,7100,8100, ten years and a month after the release of the original Mac. Apple also introduced the "Power Macintosh 1985" in March of that year. But Apple didn't celebrate its anniversary that year. Perhaps because Steve Jobs was not in Apple, as he left the company in 2006 due to internal disputes and founded Next, a company specializing in software, which Apple then bought. Jobs also contributed to Pixar, "an American animation studio" which Disney bought in XNUMX.

Five years later, in 1997, Apple created a unique official anniversary, marking the twenty years since the introduction of the Macintosh. In fact, this anniversary was not limited to Mac, but for the company in general, which was founded in January 1977.

Thirty years later, Apple has not celebrated its thirty-year anniversary. In this year 2017 is the forty-year anniversary of Apple, and Tim Cook did not mention anything about this anniversary in any of his statements, but only spoke about the new Apple garden, and he bragged a little that the iPhone changed the world in the last ten years. But nothing has been said about Apple's XNUMXth anniversary.

It is known that Apple introduced three new types of iPhones this year, and instead of them following the same path that they are following in the previous years of submitting the iPhone version and then following it with the “S” version, Apple jumped and did not offer iPhone 7s and provided directly an iPhone. 8 and iPhone 8 Plus In these models, Apple introduced a new service on its devices, which is wireless charging, and it also added other general improvements.

The X factor

Before talking about the iPhone X, we first need to talk about OS X or what is now called macOS X, which was introduced after Mac OS 9 and this is at least a logical designation of Mac OS 9 and then Mac OS X, which pronounces "Mac OS X any ten".

The Mac OS X system continued to eleven major versions from 2001 to 2016 and to distinguish numerically Apple gave versions of “10.8, 10.9 etc.” and also gave it animal names such as tiger, lion, mountain, captain, etc.

In 2016, Apple decided to unify the name of OS by "changing the name again" and therefore OS X became macOS, meaning that each device follows the name of the OS abbreviation such as iOS, tvOS and watchOS.

Apple launched macOS 10.9 as "Mavericks" or "Mavericks", 10.10 as "Yosemite," 10.11 as "Captain", 10.12 which became Sierra, and then finally launched macOS 10.13 under the name High Sierra.

It is known that the sub-versions are not as important as the main versions that have new features, and this explains why the iPhone 8 and not the 7s, and this is perhaps due to the wireless charging feature, which is the most important feature of the iPhone 8.

Another reason for naming the iPhone 8 and not the 7s is because jumping from 8 to ten is not like jumping from 7 to ten, so that Microsoft jumped from 8 to ten as well.

Why didn't Apple launch the iPhone 9? What is the name that you expect for the iPhone in the next year? Let us know what you think in the comments.

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