You have one iPhone, but I have two iPhones, right? Wrong, wrong and wrong again – at least that’s what Apple says.
According to Phil Schiller, Apple’s global marketing director, Apple product names should never be pluralized. That is, if you own two Macs, you should actually say, “I have two Mac computers.”
Schiller taught us our Apple grammar in a post on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/statuses/725791354769399808
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Schiller clarified his statement with two more tweets:
https://twitter.com/statuses/725937759022514176
https://twitter.com/statuses/725938369826414592
But is he right? Well, Apple actually has its own style guide, which page 121 advises:
Trademark Product Names: Make trademark product names plural by adding the plural generic noun to the singular product name.
Correct: Mac computers, MacBook Pro computers, iMac computers
Incorrect: Macs, MacBook Pros, iMacs
So in Apple’s books, Schiller got it spot on. But we probably won’t be saying “I have three iPhone phones” or “You bought two iPad Pros” any time soon.
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