Why is there no iPhone 9 or Windows 9?
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As you can see, the reasons for skipping the “9” are not universal. They are simply happenstance that necessitated skipping “9″ for both Windows and iPhone. *OS X has been renamed macOS. This was possibly due to the release of the iPhone X, which used the same naming scheme as the desktop OS.