"iPhone" won't come from Apple

[Mrious_be]

Why doesn't Apple start a totally new name franchising.
I love what they did with the "iTV" name.
A nice Apple logo and then the letters "TV" like "Apple"TV.
So why do that with their phone also and call it "Apple"Phone?
Would be nice as a logo
And it's usuable on all their hardware:
"Apple"Book
"Apple"BookPro
"Apple"Mac
"Apple"MacPro
"Apple"Pod

[kimmer]

QUOTE(Parker @ Jan 11 2007, 02:52 PM) [snapback]115769[/snapback]

How do i do a snapback?

Use the REPLY TO or QUOTE button (depends on your skin as to how it's labeled). That will put the following info in your reply window:

CODE

[quote name='Parker' date='Jan 11 2007, 02:52 PM' post='115769']

:offtopic: How do i do a snapback?
[/quote]

and the board software generates the snapback using the "post" info in the code.

[jb]

Paddy is right. Just like i tv became , i phone will become .

jb

[Mrious_be]

QUOTE(jb @ Jan 12 2007, 01:25 AM) [snapback]115772[/snapback]

Paddy is right. Just like i tv became , i phone will become .

Hehehe... I wanted to file a formal complaint here, saying that I said that... but then i checked up and yup, Paddy got first
I guess that's what happens if you don't fully read all the posts in a topic

Did you had a hard time with the "mac" symbol also JB?
I looked it up for my post, and the key combination "alt+shift+K" does the trick, giving you the apple symbol but... once you hit the "post reply" button the apple symbol is changed by a questionmark... no use there pitty.

I do hope they will rename the phone "ApplePhone", would be nice.

[Gregg]

Well, if they lose out on the iPhone name, people who buy "one of those new phones from Apple" will name it for them.

[chriskleeman]

How about "I am, therefore I phone?"

That would be for my daughter's generation....

Chris K

[jb]

Mrious be.

I too got the question mark when I tried to post the Apple character. So I captured the selection of the texts, "translated" the captions in  ".jpg" pictures with Graphic Converter, and uploaded the pictures to my Boomspeed.com Web Hosting account. I then referenced the pictures web addresses into my TS post.

And voila!

jb

[gunug]

Old Apple Phone:



Cute!

[Mrious_be]

QUOTE(jb @ Jan 12 2007, 05:49 PM) [snapback]115818[/snapback]

I too got the question mark when I tried to post the Apple character. So I captured the selection of the texts, "translated" the captions in  ".jpg" pictures with Graphic Converter, and uploaded the pictures to my Boomspeed.com Web Hosting account. I then referenced the pictures web addresses into my TS post.

What we won't do to post a nice looking topic up on TS

[sandbox]

QUOTE(Paddy @ Jan 11 2007, 03:48 PM) [snapback]115758[/snapback]

SB, they didn't come to a settlement - otherwise there would be no lawsuit.  Somehow I don't think Apple and Cisco are in collusion just to keep their respective names in the news here! Apple doesn't need any help with that right now and Cisco, as I noted elsewhere, is no doubt stringing Apple along for as long as possible, to milk the situation for all it's worth. I doubt that their terms were acceptable to Apple - so, no deal.

Several have suggested just calling it the ApplePhone - and someone suggested iMobile. iMobile also has some trademark activity, but does not appear to have an active, accepted trademark. The only registered one is in the process of being abandoned at the moment. (if you go to the trademarks site, you can check the TARR records, which will reveal the status of the various trademark applications)

Although I can't find the article now I did read something that said that a deal was struck, not that it was accurate, we know now that it's not. But if the media happen to have better things to do, iPhone would not have gotten the attention and in that case this might have been just an ace in the hole for extended coverage. Of course my analysis leans to the skeptical, but that's my nature, I do not see any reason why a company that could take advantage of a news cycle would want to leave it on the table. It would capture the up and down cycle of the conflict and everything the imagination could muster.

[Xairbusdriver]

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once you hit the "post reply" button the apple symbol is changed by a questionmark

Probably because the font used by the software is not the font being used by you ( or JB ). The apple symbol is not widely available outside the few Apple constructed fonts, so it's highly unlikely that any of the fonts allowed in the IPB software would have them.

[sandbox]

Fascinated by the extraordinary coverage of iPhone on every network, every cycle, even on the comedy shows, and then it dawned on me…….. what just happened to Cingular also happen to Apple.
http://www.att.com/customer_merger/index.html

Apple tied it’s product to the Gorilla in the room.  

[krissel]

I think Cingular/ATT will be getting the best of the collaboration. They will be acquiring  thousands/millions of new customers who will switch because of the new phone. If they offer any kind of discount on the phone price I'll bet it will be ATT that picks up the difference, not Apple. Much better for Apple's bottom line...and stock.  

[jepinto]

The merger is funny.  My first cell phone was US Cellular, bought out by AT&T, then bought out by Cingular.

Took two BellSouth employess to get my cell service straight when the Cingular deal came through;  Ciingular kept saying I wasn't a customer.  Even though my phone, my account, kit and kabooodle said Cingular, Cingular kept insisting I was an AT&T customer.

And my contract is up in May!!  So let's see what they offer

[Xairbusdriver]

You probably will get to go through the same experience again. Cingular is not long for this world. AT&T thinks that is a more interesting name than Cingular, which is apparntly often misspelled ( Singular ) or confused with the drug ( Cingulair ).