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I agree, and also there's something communicated by the brand iPhone that is important.

"Apple phone" communicates that this is merely Apple's version of a thing, the phone, that many manufacturers produce.

"iPhone" is a noun, its own distinct category of thing, that you can only buy from Apple.

I’ve seen the Apple Phone suggestion a few times. It’s kind of silly.

These kind of naming/marketing convention reviews are important to conduct when a change is needed. Nothing in this regards needs to be changed with the iPhone. The whole company doesn’t have to align around i this or that, or no i, until a change is needed. Why they didn’t call it iSilicon.

Exactly. Regardless how much Apple pushed on branding the watch as "Apple Watch", a few of my coworkers on the Android side always say I have an "iWatch Ultra", given these are folks have an above average attention to the tech sector, I won't believe "Apple Phone" is a better name.

Yes iPhone and iPad are far too well established to drop the "i". The rest of the list isn't too bad but I also don't think it's a lot more clear either.