Just As I Thought

A versatile letter

“X” isn’t just ex anymore.
When Mac OS X debuted, it took us Mac nuts a while to transition our pronunciation of ex to ten. Still, we managed to do it and now it’s second nature.
But now it seems that Apple is poised to debut a new line of Airport wireless products tomorrow; they look to be named Airport Extreme X2 and X4.
Which leaves us with this conundrum: is it ten2, ex2, or times2?

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