Why is there no iPhone 9? Easily explained

Now that the iPhone X has been officially launched, many are wondering why there is no iPhone 9. In this practical tip we clarify you.

The iPhone X

The X stands for the Roman ten. We have already explained this to you in another practical tip.
With the introduction of the iPhone X, the iPhone 8 and the 8 Plus, Apple has skipped a number: the nine.
According to analysts, the developers want to use this to illustrate a major leap in terms of design and technical innovations.
In the eyes of the observers, the iPhone 7 should only bridge the waiting time for really big changes.
Because Apple has allegedly ensured in the past years through its product policy that many customers have older devices. The iPhone 7 hardly brought any major innovations, which is why many users stayed with previous models.
Many customers therefore want to replace their rapidly aging smartphones from previous generations. That's why Apple has a huge chance to sell millions of iPhones again with the upgrade to the iPhone X.
The prerequisite for this is, of course, that the upcoming iPhone generation is attractive enough to persuade users of the older devices to upgrade.

In this respect, there is a clever marketing strategy behind the leap: Customers should think that the iPhone 8 is not the latest device on the Apple market.
It is believed that despite its astronomically high price, the iPhone 10 will be the smartphone that people really want.
Microsoft has also used a similar trick. The company deliberately skipped Windows 9 to convince users with version 7 to afford the update to Windows 10.
The jump made the apparently outdated version look so antique that the upgrade seemed necessary.
Maybe in the future we will still see an iPhone 9, an 8S or even an XS.
Tip: This is how you can pre-order the iPhone X.

In our next practical tip, you will learn how to charge the new Super iPhone from Apple wirelessly.