Apple wants ‘iPhone’ rights
p2pnet.net News:- The letters ‘e’ and ‘i’ are significant online. The first usually means ‘electronic’ (as in email) and the second, ‘internet,’ as in, you guessed it, iPod or iTunes.
Apple is already trying to shanghai ‘pod,‘ and now it’s apparently after ‘i’ as in iPhones, as just about everyone and his brother already calls the projected Apple mobile phone.
“Apple Computer has filed for a trademark on the term iPhone, suggesting the company plans to use the moniker, recently popularized amongst the analyst and blogging communities, as the official name for its highly-anticipated iPod cell phone,” says AppleInsider, going on:
“According to the filing, which remains under examination, Apple originally sought the iPhone trademark back in March, when it filed a similar request with a trademark office in a nation off the coast of South America.”
Rumours that it’s also after the ‘A’ in Apple and the ‘J’ in Jobs are vicious and unfounded.
Meanwhile, on the iPhone, “The filing, made last month with a Far Eastern trademark office, is the latest in a long list of incontrovertible evidence to suggest the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPod maker is in the final developmental stages of the project, which is expected to merge traditional cellular capabilities with an iPod digital music player,” says the story, adding:
“In the September 15th filing, Apple describes iPhone as ‘handheld and mobile digital electronic devices for the sending and receiving of telephone calls, faxes, electronic mail, and other digital data; MP3 and other digital format audio players’.”
Also See:
shanghai ‘pod, – Apple puts dibs on ‘pod’, September 27, 2006
AppleInsider – Apple seeks rights to iPhone trademark, October 14, 2006
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October 17th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Apple just wants trademark rights to the letter “i” in front of any other letters. What’s the problem? The state of iDaho may object, but who the hell lives way out there anyway…