iPhone, Apple, Cisco, Law Suit, Web 2.0 and what not!

iphone.jpg” border=”0″ height=”132″ width=”147″ />OK I know that I’m already quite late in informing about iPhone or writing anything about it but I guess that I was somehow holding myself (for no reason at all) from writing anything about it. But this is what I call real buzz! I’m sure that all of you must have heard about something or the other about iPhone and now I’m writing this post to just sum up some of the events about this such a controversial phone…

I’ll not go ahead and explain each and everything but will mention the key events and will end up the post in a hope that by end of this post, world will not see any other hot news or controversy about this new release from Apple! So lets look at some points and you decide yourself that what exactly you think about this phone.

* Apple decides that they’ll be integrating Ipod in a mobile phone.
* Blogosphere names it iPhone.
* Apple can’t use the trademark iPhone because Cisco has the trademarks of iPhone.
* Apple launches iPhone and simultaneously Cisco decides that they’ll let Apple use iPhone as the brand name for the new phone.
* Cisco files a law suit against Apple as Apple didn’t took the permission from Cisco for using the trademark.

Holy! One product but so many frills attached to it. Now, it is turning into such a mess that everyday when you’ll open up your eyes and when you’ll hold the newspaper or read news online or watch TV news or any other media you’ll see something or the other happening with this iPhone!

Well, Now can someone go ahead and ask Cisco that when they decided that they’ll let Apple use the trademark then why exactly they are filing a suit against them. Does it really matter that Apple took their permission or not? I agree that it would have been nice on Apple’s part if they would have took the permission but still, a law suit when Cisco allowed Apple to use this term?

Well, apart from this many web services are now aiming to make their products compatible with Safari as this so called iPhone (well, we are still not sure that what it will be called) has fully functional Safari browser and has wireless capabilities and thus most of the startups (Web 2.0 companies) are hoping that sales of this cool gizmo will help in making their services popular!

Anyway, I’m not sure about popularity of these startups but I’m sure that this will certainly help in boosting the sales of Apple phone, Apple Mac. This whole controversy has already given enough popularity to this product and Apple will try to take various steps to cash in the buzz created over this iPhone.

Anyway, these were my views about this whole scenario, What do you think about this buzz and what are your views about this Apple iPhone?

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