Ask HN: What is the significance of ommitting “the” when referring to products?
I notice Apple has a tendency to oddly exclude articles/determiners in phrases like "do not restart [your] Apple Watch", or "meet [the] iPhone", and to oddly include them in other cases -- "the biggest update for 'the Mac' yet".
This is something I've always found very interesting, as I imagine there has to be some practical explanation for it in terms of branding or image.
I can't imagine this has any relationship to trademark dilution, because these are very well recognized as Apple trademarks.
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