
This is also an apparent homage to the original Mac OS, where Steve Jobs-having recently taken over control of Apple in 1997-outlined plans to jump from the Classic Mac OS 7.6 to the NeXT-based Mac OS X platform, with two interim Classic releases supplying the 8.0 and 9.0 versions. This sort of "ten" naming was partially anticipated last year, with the idea that Apple could rename its existing models as iPhone 7, 8 & 9 to make way for an iPhone 10 in time for the tenth anniversary of the original iPhone. Rather than an incremental "iPhone 7S," it looks like we'll be skipping right to iPhone 8 and then skipping ahead even further ahead to iPhone X. We now apparently know what Apple will calling the new 2017 iPhones, as Neil Hughes reported for AppleInsider on Saturday. The previous segment looked at the "largest" unveiling of the event: Apple Park itself.
