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- bdizzlefizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm not a fanboy, but Enderle always sounds off anti-Apple, and is consistently wrong (misinformed, misinterprets/misquotes facts, etc).
Cisco said from the start all they wanted was interoperability with Apple (they didn't say on what products or how), so this is what Cisco was hoping for. How is that getting shafted or the short end of the stick?
It's fine not to like Apple, but it's not fine to misrepresent facts to sway people to your opinion.
Now, as for paying, who knows. Apple had plenty of evidence to fight Cisco's claim (like falsified proof of usage of the name by Cisco), so it may not have taken a single dime. Again, Cisco wasn't in it for money, they wanted access to what they feel will be a big product for Apple via inter-operation (or perhaps it's with another product, like Apple TV or the iPod). Cisco isn't so short-sighted to just want a one-time payoff.
This article is absurd. It just burns me how many people will be like, "See, Apple's a bunch of scum bags, blah blah blah". If it was so bad, Cisco wouldn't have gone along with it. - DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Any way you slice it, I was pretty sure Apple would end up using the iPhone name and sure enough they are. It seems like a win for Apple to me, even if Apple made a payment to Cisco. However, I doubt they paid more than their estimated cost of trademark dispute in the courts.
- superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Cisco didn't get shafted - they didn't do as good a job of trademark squatting as they should have, and so had no leverage over Apple. If Cisco had gone forward with a lawsuit they probably would not have even been able to keep using the iPhone name, so really this is as good as it got for them!
Apple deserves credit for realizing how tenacious Cisco's hold on the name was and refusing to pay out what was probably a large sum of money to Cisco.
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