iPhone Edition si 8 iPhone Plus are confirmed by sources inside the Apple company, or its partners, the names being rumored extremely rarely in recent months. The first time I heard about the name iPhone Edition was in the spring when a Japanese publication announced that Apple was considering it, and I only heard about the iPhone 8 Plus a few weeks ago from a separate source.
I thought that iPhone Edition is a name that the Apple company has no intention of ever using for the iPhone, but I thought the same about the iPhone 8 Plus. Even if the name iPhone Edition would have a certain logic, considering the 10th anniversary of the launch of the first iPhone model, the iPhone 8 Plus does not seem to have logic since the iPhone 7 Plus successor comes with "unworthy" changes such a big name change.
iPhone Edition may be a name specially chosen by the Apple company to suggest the importance of the phone with a 5.8-inch screen, which will also be extremely expensive compared to the iPhone 8 Plus. We are talking about a difference of at least 300-400 dollars between iPhone Edition and iPhone 8 Plus, so Apple could decide to use the name to convince people that the premium price paid for the phone is worth it in the end.
iPhone Edition and iPhone 8 Plus are confirmed by Apple's partners
Now if you wonder where the confirmations for the names iPhone Edition and iPhone Edition 8 plus come from, well, it seems that from Apple's partners. We are talking about very important accessory manufacturers who have internally started to change the names of the products they develop in order to sell them as compatible especially with the iPhone Edition and iPhone 8 Plus, a very important thing after the launch.
iPhone Edition and iPhone 8 Plus are names written on the cases of some manufacturers who sell accessories in the Apple Store, so we are talking about fairly reliable information received by them. If they were not sure that these are the names that Apple will use, the accessory manufacturers would not have chosen to create packaging for products that have the names iPhone Edition and iPhone 8 Plus on them.
I must be clear and tell you that these accessory manufacturers use the names iPhone Edition and iPhone 8 Plus without knowing from Apple what the final names will be. They received the information from sources close to Apple, probably those who make the packaging for iPhone Edition and iPhone 8 Plus, and by the presentation on September 12 they will have products ready for sale on the market.
