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Yeah that may have been what they intended, but everyone I know, including people who work retail selling the phones, calls it an "excess Max".


If you type the say command into Terminal on a Mac and have it say "iPhone X" or "Mac OS X" it will pronounce it correctly (Ten instead of X). Doesn't relate much to the argument, other than being a neat easter egg.


Well it at least shows what they intended. :)




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