I am as thrilled, blown away and overwhelmed as any other Mac-Head over the new device Steve introduced just Yesterday.
So Cisco sues Apple the day after? Why?
Apple has been in trade talks with John Chambers, CEO of Cisco for months over the use of the name iPhone. News is John was pretty miffed over the Keynote.
Now Apple is being sued by Cisco, which will naturally want a lot more money for the use of the name. (But why would Steve want to pay anyone for another trademark name to begin with?)
Why did Apple’s lawyers drag their feet over this? Why wasn’t an agreement signed before the Keynote? Does anyone believe that a world-class company could drop the ball on something so important as this?
Unless they were told to drag their feet on purpose.
Here is why, in my opinion:
Steve has known for several years now how much Mac and iPod people want and expect an iPhone. They are the ones who chose that name, regardless of the fact that the name belongs to someone else. Steve would want to please them, since it is a very popular thing with everyone.
But, by ‘allowing’ the talks with Cisco to lapse, Steve now has a graceful way out, to name his new device something else. Something that represents what it is far, far better than calling it an iPhone.
What will Apple Inc. call their new device?
After all, it is a:Mac/iPod/Phone/Internet Pocket Communicator, right?
What would you call it?
It is a Break-Through Internet Device.
It is a Mac, because it uses OS X running on Intel.
(Do not mention it is much, much better than the Newton, the very first PDA)
It is a very smart Cell Phone.
It is the ultimate convergence device.
It is something as completely new as the very first Macintosh, or the very first iPod.
What should it be called?
(Anyone want to be that Steve never liked the name iPhone and already has another name for it?)
Tell us here, what you would call it and why, in the Comments section below.
Regards,
Roger Born
“These are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
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