If you ever wanted an example of Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, the iPhone lawsuit is a classic. The number of Mac fanbois in denial about the fact Cisco has the US trademark for "iPhone" is remarkable. Some of the posts and blogs are terrific, the comments on this article are typical.
It's amazing just how far some people will go into denial. I'm wondering though if some of the Macolytes seriously don't know who Cisco are or believe that Motorola's only product is the Razr.
More serious is Apple's attitude. They've been in negotiations to use the iPhone trademark but instead of concluding their negotiations in a timely manner, they just ignore the problem and go ahead anyway. Now they call Cisco's claim silly.
All this from a company that sets it's lawyers onto bloggers when it thinks it's intellectual property or marketing plans are threatened.
Friday, January 12, 2007
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