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What happened to the iPhone (not the Apple one)

anjinha

anjinha

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Remember how before the iPhone was announced there was another company that launched an "iPhone"? What happened to that?
 
alexlovesmacs said:
I wonder what would apple name the iphone if that linksys iphone was trademarked?😕
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Yeah probably ApplePhone...sadly. But remember the launch of the Apple TV? It was going to be called the iTV, and Steve/Phil actually called it that by accident a few times during the keynote.
 
alexlovesmacs said:
I wonder what would apple name the iphone if that linksys iphone was trademarked?😕
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It WAS trademarked. Apple essentially ignored the trademark and eventually reached an agreement with Cisco that included a provision for sharing the iPhone trademark in the United States.

If Apple didn't use "iPhone", I would imagine "iPod Phone" or "Apple Phone" would have been decent alternatives.
 
Yeah, I had that question too a while ago, I think it was re-named... I think it was Linksys or some other big Cisco or something that was making it
 
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