“The iPhone has already been credited with revolutionizing the smartphone industry, from the moment it was released at Macworld, on Jan. 9, 2007,” Alex Heath reports for Cult of Mac.
“Although Apple did devise the ‘i’ nomenclature, for products like the iMac and the iPod, it was Cisco – a huge computing company operating around the world – that actually owned the ‘iPhone’ and ‘iOS’ trademarks, long before Apple intended to use them,” Heath reports. “So how did Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. manage to get the right to use those terms?”
Heath reports, “According to Adam Lashinsky, the author of the new book ‘Inside Apple,’ Jobs approached former Cisco executive Charles Giancarlo for the ownership of both names… The negotiation displayed some classic Steve Jobs negotiating tactics. Giancarlo said Jobs called him at home at dinnertime on Valentine’s Day, as the two sides were haggling.”
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I’ve started reading the Lashinsky. It should have been titled, “Steve Jobs was an Asshole.” So far, everything I’ve read revolves around that central theme. I’m not enjoying it so far.
Why would you even buy that crap?
I know, anything with Steve Jobs in the subject line is pretty irresistible. But come on, use some common sense. What do you think this “inside Apple” crap was going to be? “Inside”? What did Apple have him come in as a guest observer on a daily basis so he could study Jobs at work and look into all their secret stuff? Really??!
The resolution of the Cisco iPhone story is NOT as Lashansky tells it.
Cisco repeatedly and unequivocally stated publicly that it would gladly give up the name if Apple would commit to working with them and cooperate on areas of mutual interest. Cisco indeed abandoned the name and haphazardly named a dud phone they had on their hands iphone
The resolution of the Cisco iPhone story is NOT as Lashansky tells it.
Cisco repeatedly and unequivocally stated publicly that it would gladly give up the name if Apple would commit to working with them and cooperate on areas of mutual interest. Cisco indeed abandoned the name and haphazardly named a dud phone they had on their hands iphone, just to establish that they didn’t, Cisco was very desperate at the time to work with Apple (who rising fast and furious) and get in on Apple’s action. They needed a lift from a terrible rut they were in, but Apple wouldn’t let them in.
How totally inappropriate to call at dinner time. And horror of horrors on Valentine’s Day. This is almost as bad as bugging people at work during holly lunch hour!
How mironIcally appropriate to expect Puritan values from a world that mOstly doesn’t give a fuck about them
Is it too much to ask for a modicum of literacy?
Yeah, probably so. There’s been a slow descent into Left’ism (gratuitous attempt to bring political mayhem into a tech thread!) over the last three decades to expect anything other.
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yeah, the right is a real bastion of wit and intelligence.
Even with the English mistakes (pointed to by that cow) I concur with you entirely!
What’s innapropriate to one person is obviously not to another.
What’s innapropriate is the comparison of Vallentines day to holly anything.
That’s a rather prickly subject that I would rather leave until next christmas.
But, but there is no Saint associated with Christmas.
althegeo—Saint Nicholas!
Saint Nicholas, bishop of Myra, is December 6, The CocaCola Company made him a Xmas sales marketing tool. From the view of Christian churches he has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas, when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
Another dickhead comment from a crackhead high on coke cocaine.
Valentines day matters?
How inappropriate to ring on Valentine’s day: I would not hear the phone with all the shooting…
The Saint Valentine’s Day massacre!
Al Capone and Bugs Moran!
Six months later—Stock Market Crash of 1929