“Apple and Cisco Systems ended their feud over the iPhone name late Wednesday – and Apple appears to have won, tech analysts said,” Michelle Kessler reports for USA Today.
Kessler reports, “The two Silicon Valley tech giants said they agreed to share rights to the name and end their legal battle over it.”
Kessler reports, “Since the full deal was not made public, it’s hard to say for sure which company came out on top, says tech analyst Roger Kay with Endpoint Technologies Associates. But it sure looks like a ‘face-saving’ agreement for Cisco, he says. ‘It looks like Cisco caved,’ says independent tech analyst Rob Enderle. The pledge of interoperability talks ‘looks like the typical promise that (Apple CEO) Steve Jobs has no intention of keeping,’ he says.”
MacDailyNews Note: Independent tech analyst Rob Enderle? When will people and publications stop asking him what he thinks? Isn’t his horrible, mistake-laden track record more than enough by now? It seems that to be a “tech analyst,” you can say anything and — as long as you keep breathing — you get to keep making up stuff no matter what. To people in-the-know, the name “Enderle” is a red flag that shows the writer/reporter of the article isn’t in-the-know.
Kessler continues, “now it appears that Apple will get the name without fully meeting Cisco’s demands, Kay says. ‘It looks like Cisco got shafted,’ he says. ‘Maybe there’s something in the (undisclosed) terms, but I don’t see how they’re getting the good end of the deal.'”
Full article here.
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Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn (about Cisco)
“Maybe there’s something in the (undisclosed) terms” … well then maybe it is too early for this analyst to make comment …. maybe wait and actually have all the facts first …
Rob Enderle? The same Rob Enderle also known as the talking sphincter? Now we know what the village idiot thinks, so what?
First Apple Corps, Now Cisco….
Apple is just plowing through these companies. Who’s next? SONY maybe?!?!
MacDailyNews Note: When will people and publications stop asking him what he thinks? Isn’t his horrible, mistake-laden track record more than enough by now?
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LOL! When will MDN stop giving the guy free publicity? I never heard of him before reading about him over and over and over here at MDN!
Rob “Tech Paparazzi” Enderle should approach ‘Star Magazine’ or ‘The Enquirer’ about starting a Silicon Valley column. He’s just aching for drama.
He said the deal was not made public! Then you read phrases like
-it’s hard to say
‘-Maybe there’s something
-I don’t see how
Sheesh journalism at its biased worst. Does it surprise anyone that Enderle is in the middle of this? This crap is more useless than a Zune (Before you start, yes I know its bad english…..)
What’s this about “interoperability”? If they are talking about phones, well … don’t phones interoperate with each other already? Isn’t that part of “the deal”? It would be SO amusing if, instead, this turned out to mean Cisco is partly licensed to sell OSX-equipped gear. Not Dell, H-P or Gateway, Cisco. A company with no thoughts of consumer PCs other than as end-products for the lines running through their boxes.
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Talk about flogging dead horses.
This is a perfect example of Enderle making wild assertions about something which he knows nothing. Just a desperate attempt to draw the last drop of blood.
They keep asking him because he gives them what they want; a sensational headline that will catch attention. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. The reporter isn’t the one saying it. They’re just reporting it.
People foolish enough to believe everything that’s spoon fed to them in the information age, where the world’s knowledge is at your fingertips, deserve what they get.
I read the PR release on Apple’s site. Did Enderle?
Obviously not. Either that or he simply can’t read. The release simply states they will “explore opportunities.” Which means they will talk about it. It doesn’t mean Apple will actaully do anything about it, or that they have to.
There is no pledge of interoperability.
Apple’s 2nd greatest core copentency behind consumer electronics is its legal prowess. I pitty da fool who goes up against them.
Perhaps the bloggers technically won a battle in court, but you can bet that Apple won the war by making anyone think long and hard before making an unauthorized disclosure. That’s good for Apple and us consumers.
Having said that, the day that Apple uses this power the way M$ has is the day I turn my back on them, no matter how good their products are.
And what’s with this Kay character saying Cisco got shafted?
If Cisco was in the right, shouldn’t they have continued on with their suit against Apple?
IMHO, when everything was considered, Cisco (or their lawyers) realized they probably weren’t going to win (or at best, were going to end up just where they are now, anyway), so they decided not to waste anymore money in legal fees.
Perhaps now Cisco will drop the crappy must have IE and run xp requirement for the web interface on their gear. Not that you can’t just use zterm and configure their gear with a mac via the cli, I do it all the time, but fixing the web interface to be platform independant would be a nice interoperability play there Cisco….
The talking sphincter. What a good one zealot! I haven’t stopped laughing yet…..
MDN: The media will stop citing Rob Enderle when MDN stops promoting Daniel Eran’s writings.
Whether you agree or disagree with Eran is not the point.
The point is that MDN is guilty of playing favorites too.
People don’t realize that Apple had a pretty good claim to the Europe and rest of the world rights to the iPhone name.
The USA rights were in dispute and Cisco’s claim on the name may have lapsed. Others in the USA use the name for services not phones.
Jointly sharing the name for phones is probably a win for Cisco.
Unbiased,
Do you get paid by the post, the word or the letter?
Inquiring minds want to know about Microsoft payments.
The difference between Daniel Eran and Rob Enderle is that one is writing a blog, and one is writing a blog & consulting business & seeks to get paid for his opinion out in the corporate world.
So, I don’t think someone’s blog, however influential or opinionated, judged as harshly as a paid tech pundit’s writings.
I hope that made sense.
I wonder how many Linksys iPhones will be returned by angry, misguided consumers who mistakenly purchased the wrong iPhone?
I wonder if Apple is going to use Cisco to increase their enterprise sales. Does anyone else remember the XServe software that Apple was licensing from an independent third party that would launch a denial of service attack if the server was similarly attacked?
Whatever happened to that whole angle?
No “Think Before You Click(TM)” for this article, too?
Seems to me that all click-through links to articles should bear this moniker, and ESPECIALLY if Enderle is mentioned anywhere as being connected with it – instantly makes the story less credible, as has already been mentioned. So why contribute to the potential for spreading that dreck?
As soon as I saw the name Enderle my eyes rolled back in my head and I headed for the Back button. Then I saw the MDN take and it was exactly what I was thinking.
This has me thinking that there must be similar “analysts” that are quoted by USA Today (and others) on subjects that I have little knowledge… and it’s got me where I don’t believe anything I read anymore.
…’looks like the typical promise that (Apple CEO) Steve Jobs has no intention of keeping,’ he (Enderle] says.”
Nope. No bias there. He just called Jobs an habitual liar and a cheat (“typical”). Lawsuit!
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MW “movement”, see also “Zune, bowel”