Overnight Steve Jobs announced the a mobile phone, not a huge surprise there. But I was surprised it was called the iPhone given the recent Linksys announcement.
Based on this news release from Cisco is seems there has been a lot of discussions going on between the two companies and the Jobs keynote has basically committed Apple to agree to the Cisco terms for the use of the trademark.
I can sense that some lawyers have been working very long hours and will continue over the coming few weeks to sort this one out.
Update: Time has a great article showing why the iPhone is different. But there are a few things missing these have been documented around the place, some in the Time article others which of course I have not bookmarked! Some are lack of enterprise support, lack of ability to sync wireless, lack of wireless downloads across the network, no 3G support. All will be solved and Apple will most likely make a killing out of these little things.
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1 Wait, Doesn’t Cisco Have the iPhone Trademark? // Jan 10, 2007 at 9:28 am
[...] To everyone’s delight, except perhaps the folks inside the R&D of every other cell phone company on the planet, Apple announced the iPhone at MacWorld today. Wait, doesn’t Cisco own that trademark? Why yes they do. Apparently Apple and Cisco have been discussing it and, if all goes well, Apple will have an agreement with Cisco to use the iPhone trademark. Well, glad that’s over with. [...]
2 Cisco Sues Apple Wow who would of guessed! at Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology // Jan 11, 2007 at 9:44 am
[...] As I said yesterday the lawyers will be busy over the next few days. Obviously things weren’t all that sweet with the Apple/Cisco relationship, Cisco is now suing over the iPhone. [...]
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