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    Default Why did Apple and Windows skip the number 9?

    You probably heard all the news about Iphone X. What is wrong with number 9 that major tech companies decides to skip it?

    Any conspiracy theories?
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    Idk about Apple but Microsoft had to skip Windows 9 because of Legacy code pointing "Windows 9" to Windows 95/98.

    Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form

    if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9"))

    { /* 95 and 98 */

    } else {

    and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that.

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    These companies didn’t actually 'skip' the number 9.

    Windows was forced to not release a windows version 9 because, the earlier windows versions 1995 and 1998 mainly had code, that matched the versions stating if the version numbers starts from 9, it is a old version of windows.

    So now, engineers at Microsoft were forced to skip Windows 9 and move on to 10.

    As for Apple:

    • iPhone 7: no headphone jack
    • iPhone X: no home button
    • iPhone 9: no phone

    and 7 8(ate) 9.

    lol jk, this year marked the tenth anniversary of iPhones first release. So to mark this decade long of iPhones they decided to release iPhone X i.e iPhone 10.
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    it's because 7 ate it
    edit: p1nky beat me ffs

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    because bush did 9/11

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    Because 7 8 9 of course. They couldn't use 9 because it was eaten. Lol

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    Oh. Lol. I learned to read the rest of the thread and saw I was about year too late.

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