iPhone X was presented by the Apple company in the middle of this month, and Tim Cook, the president of Apple, proudly announces the fact that the new phone is called iPhone X (ten). The problem is that on the image projected behind it was written iPhone X, not iPhone 10, and the world was left with the idea of pronouncing the letter X instead of the number 10, although the Apple company wrote there the Romanian number ten, not the Arabic one, and this has generated a lot of confusion.
iPhone X will remain with ics in the name for a lot of people, just as OS X was and will remain viewed the same way by many of those who don't care how they pronounce the name. The Apple company definitely wanted to have some symmetry between the name of the new iPhone model and that of the old models of the Mac OS operating system, but it managed to generate more confusion for people than anything else.
iPhone X – people pronounce the name differently and incorrectly
iPhone X is more often pronounced iPhone ics instead of 10, and questions asked by American journalists to visitors to some Apple Stores and some stores of telecom operators revealed this. Although there are people who pronounce the name iPhone X correctly, there are many more who see the letter X and pronounce it exactly as it is visible, without thinking that the Apple company actually wanted to say something else.
iPhone X has a name that for many generates confusion, and for others it seems logical, Apple fans knowing how to make the connection between the current name and the old ones of Mac OS. iPhone X will remain with the name ics for a long time from now and the Apple company doesn't even bother to change the perception because all the discussions regarding the name only bring it free publicity.
"Whether out of confusion, personal preference or mere stubbornness, many people, it seems, prefer to call the new iPhone the "Ecks," like the letter."
