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Originally Posted by ApK
Yes, it's all perception. But they way they present it is a branding decision.
The change of branding happened when the version to follow Window 3.11 was "Windows 95".
Remember also the version of MS Word that followed 2.0 was 6.0, so they are not beyond outright making up of numbers if that's what they thought people cared about.
Along the same lines, I suspect Firefox did it's "1 major version per week" thing a few months back for no other reason then to get to a higher version number than IE.
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Actually, it had nothing to do with IE. They were playing keep up with Chrome, which just released version 21. Beginning of 2011, Firefox was on 3.5, and Chrome was on 8.0. February, Chrome released 9.0, March saw 10.0, 11 in April, 12 in June, etc. So, in response, March Firefox shipped 4.0, 5 in June, 6 in August, etc. Firefox is now at v14
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Interesting point, but I would have expected the analysts to make a new prognosis after they found out that it wasn't going to be a bigger release.
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They still expected it to sell because it was Apple, plus with all of the world talking about Steve Jobs. The iPhone was nicknamed the Jesus phone for a reason.