Comments on: Today’s Top Tech: Cisco Tries To Stick It To Apple With Full-Page Ad In NYT http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/02/05/todays-top-tech-cisco-tries-to-stick-it-to-apple-with-full-page-ad-in-nyt/ Deliciously Geeky... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Tuffy http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/02/05/todays-top-tech-cisco-tries-to-stick-it-to-apple-with-full-page-ad-in-nyt/comment-page-1/#comment-132770 Tuffy Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:00:56 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/02/05/todays-top-tech-cisco-tries-to-stick-it-to-apple-with-full-page-ad-in-nyt/#comment-132770 iPod, iMac, iTunes, iLife... At this point, i-anything is embedded in the public consciousness as an Apple product. To me, any company using the i-prefix name for what very clearly is not an Apple product screams "knockoff." It doesn't matter if they actually own the name at this point--it just seems like coattail riding. What's so great about the name iPhone that they'd put up such a fuss about retaining the name anyway? Unless they're doing this specifically to ensure that Apple is forced to purchase the name for an appropriate price, let it go. That Linksys ad is awful-looking. If it didn't say amazon.com on the bottom, I'd almost think it was a Radio Shack ad from 16 years ago. iPod, iMac, iTunes, iLife…

At this point, i-anything is embedded in the public consciousness as an Apple product.

To me, any company using the i-prefix name for what very clearly is not an Apple product screams “knockoff.” It doesn’t matter if they actually own the name at this point–it just seems like coattail riding.

What’s so great about the name iPhone that they’d put up such a fuss about retaining the name anyway? Unless they’re doing this specifically to ensure that Apple is forced to purchase the name for an appropriate price, let it go.

That Linksys ad is awful-looking. If it didn’t say amazon.com on the bottom, I’d almost think it was a Radio Shack ad from 16 years ago.

]]> By: JF http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/02/05/todays-top-tech-cisco-tries-to-stick-it-to-apple-with-full-page-ad-in-nyt/comment-page-1/#comment-132421 JF Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:10:37 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/02/05/todays-top-tech-cisco-tries-to-stick-it-to-apple-with-full-page-ad-in-nyt/#comment-132421 :( This article was good until the lewd reference at the end, gimme a break. :( :(
This article was good until the lewd reference at the end, gimme a break.
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]]> By: LD http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/02/05/todays-top-tech-cisco-tries-to-stick-it-to-apple-with-full-page-ad-in-nyt/comment-page-1/#comment-132325 LD Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:04:53 +0000 http://www.ohgizmo.com/2007/02/05/todays-top-tech-cisco-tries-to-stick-it-to-apple-with-full-page-ad-in-nyt/#comment-132325 Cisco doesn't own Netgear, it owns Linksys. And it bought Linksys in 2003, not 2000. And iPhone was not acquired in that purchase. It was a purchase of a different company. That's only the first half of the first paragraph. I stopped reading after that. Cisco doesn’t own Netgear, it owns Linksys. And it bought Linksys in 2003, not 2000. And iPhone was not acquired in that purchase. It was a purchase of a different company. That’s only the first half of the first paragraph. I stopped reading after that.

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