theappleblog.com— Apple has methodically avoided locking itself in to the iPhone name by not etching it in to the product and by using "weasel" language.
Jan 15, 2007View in Crawl 4
I think there was so much hype surrounding the name iPhone that Apple would have to announce it as iPhone, even if they do change it's name.Apple used to have some software bundled with it's macs many years ago called Apple Phone, you could dial numbers on your keypad or choose an entry in the address book and it would dial them through your modem and phone line. It was good fun cus you could then open up SimpleText (Apple's free text editor at the time) and type what you wanted the built in voices to say to the personal on the other end of the call.Apple Phone would surely be the obvious choice if iPhone is not permitted.
No third-party apps. No Skype. Dead battery and no way to swap out.David Pogue of NYT used it and said hard to type on and call quality sucked. Isn`t that the primary function of a phone???Just name it Newton 2.0 and be done with it. Announcing this "phone" early has backfired on them already. The RDF has worn off and Mac experts are even having second thoughts ;(
arcticceltJan 16, 2007
They should simply strengthen the iPod trademark and call it the iPod Phone.(they can also find some fancy word ala nano that will mean phone)
catmistakeJan 16, 2007
Once Apple is convinced everyone understands that it is a phone, they can just call it the iMac nano (with phone).
naio21Jan 16, 2007
Correction: Apple messed with Cisco. Like that tiny little bug buzzing in your ear.
tformedJan 16, 2007
so they might get away by not etching the phone, what about the casing?
mach272Jan 16, 2007
I think there was so much hype surrounding the name iPhone that Apple would have to announce it as iPhone, even if they do change it's name.Apple used to have some software bundled with it's macs many years ago called Apple Phone, you could dial numbers on your keypad or choose an entry in the address book and it would dial them through your modem and phone line. It was good fun cus you could then open up SimpleText (Apple's free text editor at the time) and type what you wanted the built in voices to say to the personal on the other end of the call.Apple Phone would surely be the obvious choice if iPhone is not permitted.
macparrotJan 16, 2007
How about calling it the naioPhone? Oh wait, that won't work as when it's released it might actually be useful. Sorry.
somerandomnerdJan 16, 2007
You could argue that a device that runs OSX is a Mac...
applesuxleoJan 16, 2007
No third-party apps. No Skype. Dead battery and no way to swap out.David Pogue of NYT used it and said hard to type on and call quality sucked. Isn`t that the primary function of a phone???Just name it Newton 2.0 and be done with it. Announcing this "phone" early has backfired on them already. The RDF has worn off and Mac experts are even having second thoughts ;(