In a bid to reinvigorate PC sales, Dell should've put a lot of thought into how it rebrands its PCs. Instead, it ripped off the iPhone's Pro and Pro Max naming conventions.

Dell's rebranding is similar to Apple's naming style, which uses "Pro" and "Pro Max" for its top iPhone models. When asked about this similarity, Dell executives said that no company could claim ownership of words like "pro" or "max," as reported by PCWorld.

Dell's branding has always seemed a bit clumsy to me, and it seems the Texas-based tech giant may agree. It's just announced a branding change that simplifies its core PC product tiers into three main categories—Dell,

Inspiron, XPS, and other Dell brands are going the way of the dinosaur it seems as the new Dell, Dell Pro, and Pro Max take their place.

Branding is important. Corporations spend millions of dollars every year to make sure that words like “Tacoma” and “Sleep Number” press the right buttons in your brain. And Dell has spent decades putting that same work in for terms like “XPS,