When you go looking for a car will you buy the Peugeot 3008 because it has a higher number than the 208 ? Or will you do research, go to the company site and look at the product description, compare the specs and make your opinion about what best fits your needs ?
Right now there's about 5 lines of Surface devices with each their very specific purpose and tradeoffs. I'd be shocked at someone buying one solely based on the how the name sounds or what they assume it means without looking at the actual product pages.
> When you go looking for a car will you buy the Peugeot 3008 because it has a higher number than the 208 ? Or will you do research, go to the company site and look at the product description, compare the specs and make your opinion about what best fits your needs ?
You're comparing model to generation, not sure what's that supposed to mean.
Yes, I will buy Peugeot 208 over 207 because it is obviously newer. And the point isn't that I'm buying solely because of a number, the point is that it is much more intuitive to have simple naming over "jerk my co, pilot, ai".
> You're comparing model to generation, not sure what's that supposed to mean.
If you can accepts different schemes depending on the maker's intent, I really don't get why you're distressed by XBox naming different console lines with different monikers. I guess it all comes down to whether you like the name or not, and there was nothing to argue on from the very start.
> Yes, I will buy Peugeot 208 over 207 because it is obviously newer
That's a disturbing logic to me, but you do you.
> That's a disturbing logic to me, but you do you.
Buying 2025 model over 2014 is truly disturbing.
A Peugeot 208 is around 17k euros. Throwing that money at a dealer solely because it's one more than the number before is disturbing, yes.
Edit: When you're saying the 207 is from 2014, you're already doing your research past looking at the number. I'm not even sure what we're still discussing.
Cars are a poor analogy because model year works as a version number. I'd rather have a 2025 Peugeot whatever than a 2015.
Do you actually want the 2025 touchscreen version above the 2015 all physical button model for instance ?
And what if it's still sold but at a third of the price ? "it's newer" is the main decision factor when it's throwaway money. Otherwise you're thinking a bit longer about what to buy for 17k euros.