paulobrien.net— A user on the XDA Developers forums linked to an iPhone like GUI for PocketPC's and received the wrath of Apple Legal.
Jan 14, 2007View in Crawl 4
Qumahlin,First of all, it was a joke. Second of all, Cisco was not "cybersquatting" as that term applies only to domain name registrations, not trademarks. They weren't squatting on it either, as it was obtained before Apple even had an iMac, let alone an iPod. Whether Cisco still has the trademark is up for the courts to decide, not you, or Apple. But remember, if it is found that Cisco lost the trademark than ANYONE (Motorolla, Samsung, Sony) will be able to make an iPhone.
Lets all be retards and think that that any thing good would even come from doing that! What are you like 5? that wont accomplish jack s**t, if they have decided that people have to pay for using that skin, they will do every thing in their power to do so, just like any other company would.
Apple still hasn't come to their senses as far as input devices are concerned. Apple's latest offering, the Mighty Mouse, is still mighty s**tty. Leo Laporte himself constantly says that the first thing you should do when you buy a Mac is go and buy a generic 3-button mouse. I care less about Apple's s**tty mice than I do about their single-button laptops, or the fact that they don't include a "delete" key on their laptop keyboards. There's no work-around for either of those. (The "two-finger" tapping business is both lame, and off by default.)
Guess this guy missed the part of Steve's keynote where he said that Apple has over 200 patents on iPhone and plans to be very active in protecting them.
dominatusJan 14, 2007
Qumahlin,First of all, it was a joke. Second of all, Cisco was not "cybersquatting" as that term applies only to domain name registrations, not trademarks. They weren't squatting on it either, as it was obtained before Apple even had an iMac, let alone an iPod. Whether Cisco still has the trademark is up for the courts to decide, not you, or Apple. But remember, if it is found that Cisco lost the trademark than ANYONE (Motorolla, Samsung, Sony) will be able to make an iPhone.
stkdJan 14, 2007
I tried to decypher this... I just... couldn't.
danielnielsenJan 14, 2007
Lets all be retards and think that that any thing good would even come from doing that! What are you like 5? that wont accomplish jack s**t, if they have decided that people have to pay for using that skin, they will do every thing in their power to do so, just like any other company would.
black_mathJan 14, 2007
Yeah, I used a minus sign where a plus was supposed to be. But you all got the point.
mdshortJan 14, 2007
Why do you think?
Closed AccountJan 15, 2007
Up yours apple. Get the windoze files from here:<a class="user" href="http://rapidshare.com/files/11769226/wm5_iphone_skin.zip.html">http://rapidshare.com/files/11769226/wm5_iphone_skin.zip.html</a>
mikecermJan 15, 2007
Apple still hasn't come to their senses as far as input devices are concerned. Apple's latest offering, the Mighty Mouse, is still mighty s**tty. Leo Laporte himself constantly says that the first thing you should do when you buy a Mac is go and buy a generic 3-button mouse. I care less about Apple's s**tty mice than I do about their single-button laptops, or the fact that they don't include a "delete" key on their laptop keyboards. There's no work-around for either of those. (The "two-finger" tapping business is both lame, and off by default.)
joltguyJan 15, 2007
Guess this guy missed the part of Steve's keynote where he said that Apple has over 200 patents on iPhone and plans to be very active in protecting them.