Apple was once very proud of running an easy-to-understanding policy unlike Japanese companies or PC competition. An iphone was an iPhone, an IMAC an IMAC and a Mac Mini a Mac Mini. But this is not so easy for a long time. Over the years, Apple has been numbers and additions to the names “simple”, which is rapidly confusing users. Worse than this: Names additives no longer have an official explanation, they should be accepted by customers. This will be particularly wild on the iphone 16E next week.
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“MacBook Pro M4 Pro”
It is not that only iPhones will be affected. Since the introduction of Pro variants of Apple-Silicon Chips, MacBook Pro shines with a double name: you don’t buy a simple model (“MacBook Pro M4”) and not even the Max variants (“Macbook Pro M4 Max ) “) Then the tongue breaker” MacBook Pro M4 Pro “. In the iPhone, Apple has also added the words “Pro” and “Max” (“iPhone 16 Pro Max”) for Generation 11, which in turn has nothing to do with Apple Silicon, but only one product order (” With pro “) and screen size (” maximum “).
In the iPhone 16E, Apple now has a completely new name, which has not yet been explained. Initially there were so -called “S” models on the iPhone. These were devices that joined a new design in the previous year and mostly stood for purely internal reforms. IPhone 3G to iPhone X to iPhone X from iPhone XS. The name was then closed from the iPhone 11, but was resumed in the iPhone SE before 2016. It found no number (because Apple planned to keep the model up – then in the program for four – four -) and an additional “e”. In fact, “S” is no longer fit properly because it was not an extending of an existing model, but an entry -level model. It is said that “SE” should mean, Apple never officially has.
Visual Intelligence: Apple wants to distribute AI function to iPhone 15 Pro“E” (not) “for everyone”
In the iPhone 16E, observers had long assumed that Apple would continue to describe it as a complement from the addition of “fourth generation”. But this did not happen. Apple handled 16 names from the 2024 iPhone generation and this time “E” said, this time. It is interesting for the number that Apple actually establishes its way to sell 16E over the years, as the old number is always attached to it (it is how the iPhone 17 will come in the autumn 2025). But this does not matter to the group – or it is comparatively planning compared to the “iPhone 17E”.
And now what does “E” mean? In a press briefing, which should report to Apple Blogger John Gruber Apple communicated This is that it stands for “nothing”, but the device “is made for all” (“Everyone”“I don’t think (Apple) wanted to indicate that” E “secretly stands for” all “, even though I am sure that Apple wants not everyone to buy the cheapest iPhone model.” Grabars grins can literally hold from these lines.
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Visual Intelligence: Apple wants to distribute AI function to iPhone 15 Pro
