Now, if you are scratching your heads over why they did this, it will interest you to know that Microsoft also has done something like this when they went from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. Samsung also changed things up when they named their new flagship ‘S20’ to mark the beginning of a new decade of innovation.
What we can take away from this is that the process of naming the device or product has to be thought out and planned well in advance to have the right impact on the audience and on the company as well. At times, just going with the incremental nomenclature works, but when there is a certain milestone that the company is going to achieve, a change in this trend is almost always, guaranteed.