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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.

Posted
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.

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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.

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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. :shrug:

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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;)

Posted
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.

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Its out: Steve just announced the iPhone.

 

Anyone gonna run out and buy one?

 

Phoney,

Buffy

 

From what I've heard, I'll just wait for future cheaper versions.

 

But it does look cool, huh?

 

 

 

Apple's Jobs Unveils New iPod with Phone - News and Analysis - MSNBC.com

 

Specs:

Conference calls... Speakerphone mode... • Demoing working iPhone... "first public iPhone call" to Phil Schiller • Touch your music • Visual voicemail • Quad band GMS+Edge, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth • UI looks amazing • Apple has reinvented the phone • Bulit-in speaker • Video looks high quality - WOW! • Apple iPhone features two-megapixel camera • Proximity sensor automatically shuts off screen when you bring it up to your ear • Ambiant light sensor saves power • Accelerometer - knows if it's in landscape or portrait position • iPod dock connector - headphone jack - 11/16-inch thin • Works like magic - no stylus - Multi-Touch - multi-finger gestures • Fully syncs with iTunes • Runs desktop class apps - not crippled apps - and full networking • iPhone runs on Mac OS X - five year -Location aware - with Google Maps, Jobs finds Starbuck and taps to call - orders 400 lattes - "oops, wrong number" and hangs up - (laughter) • View multiple webpages - cool effects - Exposé- and CoverFlow-like • • Zooming on webpages via touch • Mail on iPhone looks just like Apple Mail - full or split-screen • Push IMAP email - like Blackberry • Connects to any POP3 or IMAP email • Free Yahoo IMAP (and POP) email for all iPhone customers • Safarti web browser • Dashboard Widgets • Google Maps • Photos - portrait and landscape - turn the device and it displays the image correctly - zoom in and out with a touch • SMS messaging - QWERTY keyboard on touch screen • Conference calls.

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• Multi-Touch - multi-finger gestures •
This basic technology is, IMHO, more significant than anything else about the iPhone, and, I believe, a first to market. How proprietary it is (that is, how firmly it’s owned, and how liberal the owner intends to be in its licensing) could be of major significance. :phones:

 

Most compact, portable touchscreens register multiple simultaneous touches by averaging them into a single position – a lot of fun for amazing your friends by making their graphics program into an improvised video game, but no good for “multi-finger gestures”.

 

Does anyone know how the iPhone or a similar device manages this? There seems to be a small consensus in the blogsphere at large that it’s based on Jeff Han’s recently invented ”Frustrated Total Internal Reflection” technique, but I’m unaware of any definitive confirmation of this.

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I think the social ramifications of this would be to say that loosing your iPhone at a party, or on an errand run.. could just be like dropping your wallet somewhere...

 

Old Fashioned,

Racoon

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I think the social ramifications of this would be to say that loosing your iPhone at a party, or on an errand run.. could just be like dropping your wallet somewhere...
True, but my laptop already is set up to recognize me by my fingerprint. If that's not already in the iPhone it should be!

 

Always waits for 3.0,

Buffy

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i was looking for something new. They already have few brands of phones that can download music and can play music on phone. So what new about iphone?

 

The interface is the biggest plus for me.

The screen is the size of the phone. There are no unnecessary buttons in the way. The multi-touch interface is also very slick.

 

Racoon, I think those social ramifications are already present. I don't believe the iphone brings anything new to the table in those respects. Address books and personal information are already being stored on a number of phones.

Posted
This basic technology is, IMHO, more significant than anything else about the iPhone, and, I believe, a first to market. How proprietary it is (that is, how firmly it’s owned, and how liberal the owner intends to be in its licensing) could be of major significance.

 

Amen. The rest of it is just sort of "feature aggregation" but to my mind the too biggies are multi-touch and visual voicemail.

 

Why are those the two biggies? Because they seem so obvious after someone else has thought of them! Think about how much easier they are going to make your life.

 

iPhone is going to be huge not because it's going to be the best phone (and definitely not the best smartphone) but because it will be the first one that isn't painful to use.

 

The next big question is the data plan. If that thing ends up on Cingulars Pound-me-in-the-***™ 59.99 data plan it will go nowhere fast. If it ends up on the $20 or $25 dollar plan it will be "revolutionary," as it will bring the smartphone market into the consumer crowd.

 

TFS

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