News iPhone 9 might have a new name, and it's a real throwback

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The latest iPhone 9 / iPhone SE 2 rumor suggests Apple will ditch the numerical naming system as it has for the base model iPad.

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I suggested this as a joke a few months ago - "What if Apple just calls it 'iPhone', so that retailers get the pleasure of appending lengthy qualifiers to the end of the name each year, like 'iPhone (2021, 2nd generation)' ala iPad?"

Lo and behold, Phil Schiller decided to Steve Jobs-ify the new iPhone name, rather than going with random model names that he thinks sound like cool fast cars (what he said about XR).