Cisco's already taken some big steps into the consumer market by buying the
Flip cam line and releasing the
Valet routers, but the company isn't done yet -- it's just acquired the MOTO Development Group, a San Francisco design house that's worked on a variety of high-profile products like Zune 2.0 and the LiveScribe Pulse. MOTO's also done some work on
Android-based e-readers and
MIDs that never really went anywhere, but you probably know the company best for its controversial smartphone
touchscreen linearity test, which caused so much ruckus the firm actually
re-did the whole thing with a robot in charge. Cisco says the MOTO crew will live in the consumer products division, alongside Linksys, Valet, and Flip, so we should see some interesting cross-pollination soon -- and based on Cisco's middling recent efforts like the
Flip Slide HD, we'd even say MOTO might do well to lead a total revamp of the company's approach to consumer design. We'll see how it goes.
posted May 18th 2010 2:52PM
At first glance I thought that they had bought MOTO...rola
Did the same thing.
I did a Joey....
@10nisman94 I thought it meant they bought the band MOTO. Masters of the Obvious.
Seriously, the only thing I care about is that I don't have to RMA any more of my 3750's. Second one this year.
@djt
User error. I've got 8 of 'em that have been running non-stop for at least 2 years without a single problem.
@Locust hahah! I don't think burnt circuitry has anything to do with how I configured them. We are not taking about a PC here. Also I've had these for about 5 years. Plus all my other Cisco equipment have ran just fine. Just that model.
@Locust
I really wonder about your IT experience, with what you said that means every time something bad happened with the voltage it's a user error (you must blame yourself a lot :p )!! So sometimes the brand new GBICs that can fail easily it's a user error not because Cisco, interesting theory!!!
DYK: The CISCO logo is the Golden Gate Bridge?
@From My Cube Yes I did. Its much more noticeable in their earlier models.
@From My Cube
San FranCISCO
@djt In the earlier models, it actually looks more like sound waves than anything else. (the bottoms of the lines [there were more then] are all flush against the bottom of the logo) Only now that the individual lines are more centered on each other does it actually look like a bridge
HelloMOTO
Nice, I've always been a fan of Cisco.