iPhone 13 name: Here’s what Apple users really want

iPhone 13 name: Here'southward what Apple users actually want

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While there's no dubiety that Apple tree will release a new handset this September, whether information technology will be called the iPhone 13 or something else is a affair that's open to fence.

While Apple may sidestep the question this year past making the handset the iPhone 12s, the visitor was reportedly considering skipping the number altogether.

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And according to one survey, that would be the correct arroyo. From over 3,000 Apple users consulted, 18.three% said they'd be put off ownership a production chosen the iPhone 13 due to triskaidekaphobia — a fear that the number xiii is unlucky.

Between them, a majority of respondents favored naming the handsets afterward the year of sale, with 38% backing the not very Apple-similar iPhone (2021) and sixteen% saying the company should follow Samsung, and skip direct to iPhone 21.

It may seem a bit silly to skip over a production because of superstition, merely it's not similar Apple would be the first company to do so. Skyrise developers oftentimes omit the floor entirely, and you may remember that OnePlus jumped straight from the 3T to the OnePlus five in a move that was rumored to be cheers to the number's association with death in China.

Whether or not the decision makers at these companies themselves are superstitious or non is immaterial: if the population buying the products are, then why would you deliberately do anything that could potentially dampen sales?

Of course, Apple hasn't shied away from using the number 13 in the past. Not only tin yous purchase a 13-inch MacBook Pro, but iPhone owners enjoyed iOS xiii and the A13 Bionic in the past. Merely this is a bit different: sales of the iPhone contribute almost 50% of Apple tree's acquirement, and even if only a small-scale percentage of potential buyers are put off by the number thirteen, that could notwithstanding translate into millions of lost acquirement.

While iPhones do tend to be sequential in their numbering, barring the occasional break for an 'S' model, there take been omissions in the past. There was no iPhone 2, because Apple went direct from the original iPhone to the iPhone 3G, and the iPhone 9 was too skipped without caption.

With all of that in heed, we won't be entirely surprised if we see Tim Cook proudly announcing the iPhone 14 when he takes the phase in Cupertino in September 2022 — whether or not this year's model is chosen the iPhone 12s.

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Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, covering phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are found all over the web and in the occasional magazine also. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably observe him tackling his ever-growing games backlog. Or, more probable, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.