That's what I think is stupid. Roman numerals are stupid and make things inconsi...

sorum · on Sept 10, 2019

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"

bdcravens · on Sept 10, 2019

Plus "XS" was "ten S"

stordoff · on Sept 10, 2019

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

holy_city · on Sept 10, 2019

Which always sounded like "iPhone tennis" to me

mike_d · on Sept 10, 2019

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

dymk · on Sept 11, 2019

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

koyote · on Sept 10, 2019

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.

jsgo · on Sept 10, 2019

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

closetohome · on Sept 10, 2019

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