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why is it like this? (lemmy.world)
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[-] krakenx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

People in general crave the big numbers. It's why Microsoft is so weird with Xbox naming. Having the Xbox 360 compete with the PlayStation 3 Vs "Xbox 2".

Firefox also started inflating version numbers because the high version numbers Chrome was using made it look more updated.

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