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Old 11-10-2017, 08:25 AM   #227
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I wonder if skipping 9 was for the Japanese market. The word for 9 and the word for suffering sound similar, so it's unlucky. We'll probably see a skip of 13 as well.
I thought it had to do with the various '90's Windows (95, 98, 98SE) being referred to as Windows 9x. Makes as much sense as any other reason.

I suspect in an alternate universe, someone uses iTunes to connect their iPhone 9 to their Windows 9 machine
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