http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/ Engadget Comments for Apple and Cisco agree to delay lawsuit, maybe hug it out http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/
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Now as far as iPhone being too obvious, of course it is. It is a phone that is designed to take all mental capacity and dexterity away from the user. You want to use the phone, there is a button for phone. Check your email? There is a button for that too. Surf the web? Push internet. Apparently menus are too cumbersome for the uber-busy high school hipster these days. This one button system only plays up the concept of "I must have it now with no waiting" thought process of those who also say "Apple pwnz! You suxx0rS!" before actually looking at what the thing does. Don't forget it costs an arm and a leg even with a contract, will die prematurely from running too many functions from a singular irremovable battery that will only last 20 hours max regardless of what it does. Oh, it's also not even available until summer. LG's "Prada" phone does all this, with a removable battery, will be available sooner,without a contract, for less, and is smaller, and don't forget Nokia's N-series phones do the same thing, with dedicated tactile buttons no less. Seriously, even my Samsung a707 plays music, has voice dialing and has web access, and its a flip phone that can fit pretty much anywhere.

Sometimes I wish these insane Apple-ites would just go on a drink the damned kool-aid and get it over with. My fault, I guess in this case it would be "Apple Juice".]]>Feb 1st 2007 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/
Dork.]]>Feb 1st 2007 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Jack Klungerschmit @ Feb 1st 2007 9:57AM

Has anyone been to the iphone portion of the apple.com website? Was that little apple logo beside the iphone always there, or is that an addition? I think that and this article might be related.
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Yeah. I thought about that too. I think that it could come out as iPhone.]]>Feb 1st 2007 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/
The lawsuit was just recently filed. Usually, that severs all communication between adversaries.

I wonder if the court has ordered mediation already. Otherwise, very odd.]]>Feb 1st 2007 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/
LOL @ any comparison to the Samsung Sync. "Hey, my phone plays music. iPhone is already obsolete!"

Right out of the Microsoft playbook. Deny, deny, deny, then create the ZuneTalk five years later when Apple is the 4th leading manufacturer of cell phones.]]>Feb 1st 2007 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/
With the inhouse council filing the paperwork I doubt Cisco has spent anything on fighting this yet. And there is the fact that Cisco has twice the market cap of Apple. For a company the size of Cisco this is a pretty minor event.]]>Feb 1st 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/--"Why would Apple want to come up with a new anything? I mean, rumor has it that they tried to sue some vegetable distributor for using the word Pod in the title of their peas."
>>Um, I'll just guess that 83 was the year you were born, although it could be IQ. Since you don't like Apple, it's perfectly reasonable for you to take any rumor you ever hear against them and treat it as fact. Yes, apple is going around suing pea manufacturers, and apple orchards, and kraft, and so on. Sure. Maybe you saw that on the Internet, so it must be true. And I suppose it is much more important to come up with a new, innovative name (like 'vista'?) instead of a new, innovative product. If more companies worried more about clever, cool names and less about meeting needs of their customers, the world would rock so much more.

--"Now as far as iPhone being too obvious, of course it is. It is a phone that is designed to take all mental capacity and dexterity away from the user. You want to use the phone, there is a button for phone. Check your email? There is a button for that too. Surf the web? Push internet. Apparently menus are too cumbersome for the uber-busy high school hipster these days. This one button system only plays up the concept of "I must have it now with no waiting" thought process of those who also say "Apple pwnz! You suxx0rS!" before actually looking at what the thing does. Don't forget it costs an arm and a leg even with a contract, will die prematurely from running too many functions from a singular irremovable battery that will only last 20 hours max regardless of what it does. Oh, it's also not even available until summer. LG's "Prada" phone does all this, with a removable battery, will be available sooner,without a contract, for less, and is smaller, and don't forget Nokia's N-series phones do the same thing, with dedicated tactile buttons no less. Seriously, even my Samsung a707 plays music, has voice dialing and has web access, and its a flip phone that can fit pretty much anywhere."
>>I know this concept is lost on people, so I'll type slowly so you can understand it. Not everyone likes gadgets, computers, or technology. And those that do don't like the same things. Not everyone has all of their fingers, arms, legs, eyes, ears, and other things working as marvelously as you do. And what with the variety of people on the planet, somehow -just somehow- this product can exist on this planet and suit the needs of the people who buy it, even if you don't have one, don't want one, and don't like it. Amazing, I know. But obviously you already have one, since you know all about its functions, its battery performance (and you even know that, despite reports to the contrary, it only has one battery) and everything else. I don't even have to think twice about dropping that much money on anything, yet I wonder how can it be so expensive if all these high school kids are going to get them? But you raise another excellent point: no one should ever bother putting out a product if another product does the same or a similar thing. There are already phones out there that do phone calls, so they should take that out. Music's been done, so get that out too. And hey, that Prada phone, the Nokia phone - they need to get all that out too, it's been done. Ditto your Samsung. Gosh darn it, one day we'll get to that utopia where people stop trying to make improvements to things that already exist!
--"Sometimes I wish these insane Apple-ites would just go on a drink the damned kool-aid and get it over with. My fault, I guess in this case it would be "Apple Juice"."
>>And sometimes I wish people who loved to make such grand generalizations about people would go on about their lives and stop trolling every Apple-related article so they can feel better about themselves by spewing a bunch of ill-formed, baseless crap without concern for things like facts, or respecting the differences of others. Lots of Apple people bug me, lots of other platform people bug me, but I am so much above being a low-life that makes a comment about wanting any type of person (race, gender, OS, whatever) to poison themselves. ]]>Feb 1st 2007 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/
I believe the outcome will be that Apple only trades in interoperability like what John Chamber (Cisco CEO) said. Two companies tie knot to make "iPhone" trademark iron-clad worldwide.]]>Feb 1st 2007 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/
To save millions in marketing expenses. And they already did.]]>Feb 1st 2007 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/
The apple hater comparison to the KE850 is a bit thin. It's actually priced pretty similar, ~$800 w/o contract. Battery is removable for all those people who carry an extra battery around with them (do you people actually exist, or is the uproar just more bitching? Carrying batteries in your pocket is not a smart thing.) Memory is also removable, so yay to people with 3+ sd cards laying around. Still no 3G and would appear to lack WiFi as well. You're grasping at straws, just stop. I'm not saying that the iphone is hands down better, but I wouldn't say the 850 is either. If I'm saying anything, it's that we should probably wait til they're both available and then maybe put some work into it, instead of just blindly talking out your ass.

Also, congratulations to the editors of engadget on having correctly picked the next sitcom of a generation. It will be The Office and not that crazy, snarky Scrubs. DOWN WITH ZACH BRAFF!]]>Feb 1st 2007 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/Feb 1st 2007 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/01/apple-and-cisco-agree-to-delay-lawsuit-maybe-hug-it-out/
iBone?
iHorn?
iDong?
iDon'tCareActually'CoziStillWon'tSpringForitGivenit'sGonnaBeWayOverpricedLikeMostAppleProducts!]]>Feb 1st 2007 4:36PM