Texas must have an inordinate amount of wealthy judges (nudge nudge, wink, wink) given the numerous and easy way suits are settled for the plaintiffs (and the reason so many law suits are issued there).
At the time (thru late 2006 until it's intro in Jan '07), Apple didn't even acknowledge it had a phone in the works. It was all speculation and rumour from tech and blogger sites.
It was on the Internet (not Apple) that the "iPhone" name came about and Apple just adopted it as a natural (with all the other "i" items in it's inventory).
Cisco was already using the name and the 2 companies came to an understanding re it's use.
- Microsoft hijacking dead people's IDs and pretending they were writing in to support it (anti-trust trial) - paid bloggers and public support, and - the infamous lady "Mac to PC" switcher (her photo was stock and she worked for MS's PR firm)...
this wild, cheering, crazy crowd seems like another MS paid and setup PR exercise.
Other than "mild crowd" lineups for Win95 or gamers for Halo, when has anything from MS (especially Windows) garnered such a large and passionate reaction?
Wow... with all the Apple bashing over the years, I guess design and engineering really DO matter (most OEMs, not just with Dell, also see the recent MSI X320 MacBook Air knockoff).
I won't hold my breath waiting for all the hypocrites to now bash the "PC" OEMs for using design to push their products.
No doubt many of the same people in denial who try to claim the iPhone has had no affect on the cell phone market :-)
Best Buy bought out Future Shop (here in Canada) a few years ago but they are still building the 2 "brands" stores within shouting distance of each other.
The times I've been in a Future Shop, there have often been people browsing the iPod display but I've yet to see anyone near the few Zunes on the shelves.
This low price could simply be a way to dump stock, get them off the shelves and out of the stores.
"And as you can see they are in full meltdown mode. I've looked at several other sites, and these guys have completely lost it.
Their hate is just that consuming."
Pot, kettle, black... look in a mirror (if you can stand the sight) as from my few visits here reading various threads, you are one of the biggest "full meltdown mode" MS fanbois and Apple basher here.
Good thing Michael Dell's advice to Apple in the '90s (give the money back to the shareholders and shut down the company) wasn't followed ... who else would he (the company) have copied for many of the recent products?
ie, Apple dissed for paying attention to engineering and design (easy hardware access, use of colour/materials/shape, etc), apparently it's OK now that Dell and other OEMs do it; many built-in laptop features first on Apple (built-in wifi, back-lit keyboard, built-in camera, scroll wheel then trackpad, now OSX Dock-like GUI & Dell trying to rush touch screen laptop to say they were first, etc.) Wonder if they'll also produce an "iPhone killer" copycat like many others?
While Apple is introducing new gadgets and technologies, many/most of the other tech firms are merely sitting on their haunches, waiting to see what Apple does next and, if successful, they come out with their "me too" products.
Whether it's the iPod, iPhone, MBAir... whatever. It seems Apple leads, the others are following with their "X-killer"s.
Why is it usually the Apple product that is the target (and model) for these so-called killers?
Do they not have an original, innovative bone in their collective bodies?
"All of these new nettops have me intrigued. I'm looking for a small, quiet and cheap PC to replace my aging tower in my home office, and all it really needs to do is load Microsoft Office, check email and surf the web. Is there a particular nettop that's better (or a better value) than another? I know it's a rather new segment, but hopefully someone has taken a chance on one already. Thanks!"
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Patent trolling is very appropriate given that Opti stopped actually being creative and producing anything of substance to just go after patents.