CrunchGear

It’s sad how some people just can’t come up with something on their own (name wise). There are all these iThis and iThat…well iHave and iDea, for everyone/thing that comes out with an iProduct/iCompany, we iKill them. That’s right, iKill to end their iLife. And then you can loot their iCrap and start your own iCompany except you’re smarter than them and will actually THINK of a name that’s unique and new, rather than iBoring and iOverused. Then you’ll get all the iPraise just like the iMasters are getting over at iApple because they’re iTrendsetters.

iPfft!

The “I” has been used in products long before apple got a hold of it. They just made it “hip” and “trendy.”

But don’t take my word for it. http://igoogle.com

But yes naming a product that’s in the telephony sector after a well known, well advertised product, iphone2 is going to get their butts sued.

When people start copying you, that means your onto something. I would take this with a grain of salt, next version of iPhone DOESN’T NEED to be called iPhone2 (lame name anyways), it can be iPhone MAX or iPhone+ or maybe even iPhoneVista!

Jon

What!…..This one really had me going for a minute!

@ Url: What does iGoogle have to do with the i-prefix being popularized by Apple. The iMac was launched in 1998, Google was launched later the same year. They only recently (May 2005) rebranded personalised homepages as iGoogle.

@Erik, it doesn’t, my comment about Google was tongue-in-cheek. And how they followed, oh nevermind…

Jeez Crunchgear, with all the parody and off-color posts you guys have you would think that your readers can follow sarcasm.

Psst also Erik check the TM database. An Iphone trademark was first filed in 1996 and not by Apple. And if you look even closer these guys, ocean telecom llc, hold about 10 TMs on the word “iphone” itself. Including t-shirts. Wouldn’t that be funny. Apple getting sued for making t-shirts with the word “iphone” in them. Tell me you can’t see the irony in that.

That would be hilarious, and iHope it happens. Baha

And sarcasm is a disease, and internet sarcasm is deadlier. That’s why I’m never sarcastic.

To all that think iphone2 stole iphone’s thunder. iphone2 launched 2 years prior to iphone. To the uninformed, Apple actually stole the name from Cisco Systems and had an undisclosed settlement. Please don’t believe every blog that you read. The product is actually really great to get video quality images. Stock is cheap too. So buy some and hopefully get rich with me.

Josh
Florida

They actually came to an agreement that allows both companies, Cisco and Apple, to share the iPhone trademark. Everyone initially thought that Apple took the advantage over Cisco in this negotiation due to the fact that IPhone (not iPhone) was being used by Cisco before Apple’s iPhone came to mass products. For what is happening, however , we can say that Cisco made a smart deal on which they predicted the big hit for Apple’s iPhone and sharing a hot name would benefit them. If the negotiation had clashed, we might have seen iRing, iTalker, or Apple Phone as the official name for current iPhone. The Apple TV might be the case.