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      Lots of companies are guilty of this. Nvidia and SSD manufacturers with their stealth downgrades under same product name and the entirety of the monitor space:

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        I want to buy a second hand iPad or MacBook. How am I meant to know which one is which gen?

        The only product they have that is clear and somewhat easy for consumers is the iPhone.

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          Always irked me. Not even apple fanboys i know could tell which is which until they know the date of release.

          You don’t intuitively know which quarter of which year which version of a different device with the same name is at a glance?

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            They all have model numbers that are on the back of the device and easy to look up

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              Interesting because everyone i know always went “which macbook pro is that? Q3 2018?”

              Or is the number system a new addition? Most of my apple. Experience was in uni a good while ago