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Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

john — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:03:51 -0000

I dont think anyone can take down Apple at this time. Especially now that they are coming out w/ VOIP on their iphone right? http://best-t1-service-prov...

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

vic — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:51:19 -0000

This suit has been settled and both Apple and Cisco has "hugged it out", as some bloggers have put it. Both sides are going to work hand in hand to make sure their products will have compatibility with each other. I think that was the original plan to begin with on Cisco's part, otherwise they could have just gone for a monetary gain.

http://t1buyersguide.com

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

mike — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:21:44 -0000

"And yet in the real world, Windows seems to be the most popular OS in the world… Chuckle away to yourselves and Go Cisco!"

Hardly. It makes people rip their hair out... and exists to keep IT Managers employed.

Windows users wring their hands and Mac owners love their machines.

Hi-five Windows apologist, you're using a 5 year old OS.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

zakkforchilli — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:59:04 -0000

what i still dont understand is that "iphone.org" still brings you to the apple website. which means that apple owns that domain.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Barney — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:35:16 -0000

Have a read of this before making up your minds over IP:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burn...
Cisco didn’t appear too interested in the name until very recently…

(sorry, the link disappeared in the previous post)

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Barney — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:06:16 -0000

"Steve is the first to cry fowl.."
You mean like a chicken?
I think you mean: Steve is the first to cry foul…

Other than that, jeez Jason, you have some real anger issues with Stevey, eh?
Get a grip son, your anger really clouds your logic. "95 percent of the innovation that went into it was done outside of apple. Most of it from Redmond as well as Palm and HTC..." Where did 95% come from? Have a cool drink and a lie down...

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Goebbels — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:15:16 -0000

Podesta, the hilarious thing is it is just a PR... he hasn't posted since or replied to comments... There's no way he'll continue the conversation beyond this PR friendly statement... but because it appears under a "blog" instead of the PR section of Cisco's website, it's BRILLIANT!

Yeah, whatver dumb@ss bloggers.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Podesta — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:05:36 -0000

Yes, Chandler has allowed access to the Net to turn him into a fool. His admission that he tried to use the iPhone trademark issue to force a shotgun marriage between Cisco and Apple will be evidence if the case goes to trial. Cisco may have the trademark, but negotiating in bad faith puts it in the wrong ethically.

The comments on his blog have an interesting bifurcation. His supporters keep repeating a party line, 'Cisco is being open and Apple needs to be put in its place.' Obviously, they've arrived from this and other blogs spouting that meme. The opposition, instead of such vacuous behavior, has researched the issues and caught Chandler in lies about protecting the trademark and strategy.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Goebbels — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:31:44 -0000

Chandler may be regretting this blog post after this news coming out:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burn...

http://www.theregister.co.u...

"We shipped and/or supported that iPhone product for years. We have been shipping new, updated iPhone products since last spring, and had a formal launch late last year." = LIE!

Seems like "negotiating in good faith" means a last dirch effort to squeeze some value out of "IP" we weren't using.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

iJerk — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:19:03 -0000

First of all: this is not an IP dispute - why does the Cisco guy mention this ?

Second: Cisco has not been enforcing the trademark. Plain and simple - you dont enforce it, you lose it.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

met — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:51:50 -0000

To all those macfans: Will it be ok if other people start copying or improving on jPhone's 200+ patents?

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Phil — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:45:42 -0000

>Mac users have been chuckling at Windows for 20 fuckin >years.. let’s see what else you guys can come up >with..
>
>Comment by mike

And yet in the real world, Windows seems to be the most popular OS in the world... Chuckle away to yourselves and Go Cisco!

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Peter — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:22:48 -0000

The term intellectual property is such a farce. Companies will do anything to make a buck and protect it. IP is one method of kind of keeping the competition from developing something similar/better. I am in complete agreement with Richard Stallman on IP. Copyright/copyleft is fine. Patents are fine. IP is crap. Full stop.
Protect their phone. Whatever. This new phone of theirs is going to bomb out compared to the ipod. There is NO way this phone will sell in any meaningful numbers.

Sheeple, er, geeks with more money than sense will buy the phone. Rich people who think they're hot will buy the phone. Mom and pop will not. Kids will not unless their parents have more money than sense.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

anona — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:55:35 -0000

"Now that Microsoft is doing more and more hardware, will they consider a corporate name change as well?"

Yes, it'll now be: Micro & Soft.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

PXLated — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:48:06 -0000

"useless to filter"...I agree. Could this blowup in Cisco's face if it's not just filtering obscentities? Could it go from being a good example of using a blog to being the way not to use a blog?

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

mike — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:46:14 -0000

Cisco should partner with another cell phone maker and release an iPhone before June

Oh yeah, compete against Apple.. Nice try.. bring it on

Mac users have been chuckling at Windows for 20 fuckin years.. let's see what else you guys can come up with..

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Doug Haslam — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:07:48 -0000

I agree with those that call this a PR bonanza. OK, I'm a PR guy so I'll see things through that lens anyway. I'm sure the Apple lawyers remember a little letter they sent to Podcast Ready this fall.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

met — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:55:55 -0000

I intended to type comment above not content

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

met — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:55:11 -0000

PXLated - Its useless to filter content on a blog. The conversation will carry one elsewhere.
Maybe they are just deleting obscene comments.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

PXLated — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:31:42 -0000

Reports are surfacing that Cisco is filtering the comments on that blog post. Filtering out contraian (pro Apple) views. If true, makes it a PR stunt rather than a blog post discussion. What do other think?

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Joe — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:39:07 -0000

Give it a rest already with the "bloghaus". Maybe www.bloghaus.net should sue you.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

Macuser — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:04:59 -0000

Cisco guy definitely knows how to blog effectively-really well done.

And Robert, make sure you snapshot this Techmeme moment and remember it next time you think Apple only gets fawning press and a "pass" on everything-its obvious both their successes AND flaws get magnified by the press/bloggers, something that competitors tend to gloss over.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

ET — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:34:10 -0000

Cisco should partner with another cell phone maker and release an iPhone before June. That's the way I would do it. Slap an iPhone sticker on one of the cool Asian phones (or all of them for that matter) just to rub it in Apple's face.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

LayZ — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:12:47 -0000

@18. a name change to what? It's always been Microsoft Corporation.

Re: Cisco smacks back at Apple on its blog

gwhiz — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:09:47 -0000

We've seen this happen before (recently)... Apple v. Creative. THAT resulted in a hefty one-time sum being paid by Apple to Creative. We'll see it again and Apple doesn't seem to mind writing that particular check. Big deal.

Go APPLE iPhone! (just grow up quickly please I need storage, battery and other network options)