iPhone

[Buffy]

Its out: Steve just announced the iPhone.

Anyone gonna run out and buy one?

Phoney,
Buffy

[Zythryn]

Very nifty.
I love the touch screen input. I could use a new phone, and this could just be it. Have to wait till June anyways though. That will give me enough time to reconsider

[Mercedes Benzene]

I would very much love an iPhone!
Have they announced what carriers will be providing service for it?
If Verizon is on the list, I'm all in.

[InfiniteNow]

$600 for 8 gig... I'm gonna wait a bit.


Spending wiser, not just miser...

[InfiniteNow]

Well, it would appear that no sooner than our friend Steve made the announcement that a lawsuit was initiated...


Smarthouse - Mobile Phones

As first tipped by SmartHouse only minutes after the announcement by Apple of the iPhone Cisco has sued Apple for infringing on its "iPhone" trademark which was first registered in 2000.

Cisco said it was seeking an injunctive relief to prevent Apple from "infringing upon and deliberately copying and using" the trademark, which Cisco obtained in 2000 after acquiring Infogear. Infogear had previously owned the trademark and had sold iPhones for several years, it said.

...

Shares in Apple, which could not immediately be reached for comment, fell 1.3 per cent in after-hours trade following the announcement.

[Mercedes Benzene]

Well, it would appear that no sooner than our friend Steve made the announcement that a lawsuit was initiated...

HAHAHA!

...sike. That's too bad, but I'm a Microsoft shareholder. Anything that makes the competitor look bad is good in my eyes.
I would still buy an iPhone however. It looks amazing.

[Zythryn]

While this part of the article is correct: "Shares in Apple, which could not immediately be reached for comment, fell 1.3 per cent in after-hours trade following the announcement. "

What they don't mention is that apple shares are up about 10% since the announcement of the IPhone.

This is all about money, it will get settled after the lawyers wrestle about it for a while.

[InfiniteNow]

Good point, Zythryn. I knew that, but didn't post it as it was already referenced (as an 8% bump) in Buffy's opening link. I'm curious how it plays out, because Steve Jobs is rather arrogant, and he knew full well going in that the name iPhone was taken... Let's see just how valid his arrogance is.

[Zythryn]

It should be interesting. I am not a big fan of Jobs, however, I heard on Tuesday that Apple and Cisco were heavy into talks about Apple aquiring the trademark. Then Wednesday, word of the suit.

I think our society is just too damn suit happy, however that is a topic for another thread

[CraigD]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Well, it would appear that no sooner than our friend Steve made the announcement that a lawsuit was initiated...

IANAL, but this promises to be interesting!

In 6/2004, a professional psychic counselor, Robin Mueller, attempted to register the trademark “SpiritInside”. Intel threatened to sue her for infringing on their trademark, “Intel Inside”, even though Mueller’s mark resembled Intel’s only in that it was essentially a 2 word phrase ending in “inside”. According to Mueller, as quoted in several news services, Intel asserted its ownership of all “any phrase that is constructed with a word
followed by ‘inside.’” (source: Prophet.Net | Quotes | Stock News)

Apple is not Intel, and Cisco is not a small, fringe profession business, but I wonder if Apple is considering making a similar claim to all words constructed of the letter “i” followed by a word (eg: “iBook”, “iPod”, “iPhone”)? The iBook was a well-known mark a year before Cisco’s registration of the “iPhone” mark, and a large majority of people, I expect, would associate products with name of the form “i____” with Apple, not Cisco.

Technologically, I think the iPhone looks nifty. It bears a striking resemblance to the phone my wife’s been carrying for the past 5 years – A Handspring Visor with the VisorPhone Springboard module. I’m still pissed at Handspring for abandoning its Springboard expandable handheld approach in favor of it’s, IMHO, too-small-for-a-handheld, too-big-for-a-phone Treo line.