Apple Registers iPhone Trademark
- Class: 9 Computer hardware and software
Class: 38 Communication by computer; communication between computers; rental and rental of communication apparatus and electronic post fans for personal use; electronic news services; electronic sending of data and stands on Internet or other data bank; supply of data and news by electronic sending; obtaining of access for electronic news services relating to here by shop of information and data on the Internet
Class: 42 Computer services; development and sale of media for use in computer networks, cable in bulk networks and worldwide communication networks; web site hosting; woven -site- hosting; software leasing; advisory services relating to computers, software electronics, telecommunication, security and -authentisierung-; enable of information, computer networks, cable in bulk networks and worldwide communication networks; advisory services and computer technical support services, computer networks, software and computer operated stands management and -workgroup-assembly on computer networks and worldwide communication networks; enable of software updating by computer networks and worldwide - komunikationsnetzwerke-; enable of on line magazine in area of computers and computer software
The iPhone.org domain has been registered by Apple for years... spawning much speculation. But other unused domains - such as iKids.com, Mammals.org and MacMate.com have also pointed to Apple's site for years.
Owner details are limited to simply "Apple Computer, Inc" from Australia's Trademark search -- no names/addresses to verify the identity.
Steve Jobs has previously downplayed the likelyhood of a future Apple PDA, but has pointed towards cellphone integration being the future.
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in fact, I havn't used the modem on my 667G4 at all, and havn't used a modem since we had a 300G3
it would be neat to make phone calls on the comp, I know one has been able to do it for years, but with integration with addressbook iCal, etc... it may get interesting
If some other company brought out a new phone with the name iPhone, some people could mistakenly think it was the Apple product they had been waiting for. And Apple would be pretty pissed off.
Don't kick yourself if you've just bought a new phone, I don't think there will be an iPhone soon.
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If I was in charge of Apple, I would have registered the name "iPhone" also, even if they weren't planning to release anything by that name, but to stop anyone else from using the name, because of all of the recent hype and rumours about an apple iPhone.
If some other company brought out a new phone with the name iPhone, some people could mistakenly think it was the Apple product they had been waiting for. And Apple would be pretty pissed off.
Don't kick yourself if you've just bought a new phone, I don't think there will be an iPhone soon.
I agree. It's standard for big companies to use the "shotgun" method when registering names. Anything they might use, someone else might use, or someone else might use to pose as the first using is what they go for. :-)
A year ago... only a small percentage of people used their cellphones as their main phone. In just one year that number has skyrocketed and now everyone I talk to says that they are getting rid of their home phone. It makes sense... you give someone your phone number, but which one... the cell or the home phone? Good riddance. USWest is a horribly corrupt company with a monopoly on the local phone service in the northwest. Everyone I know hates them too... they dug their own grave and now they have to lie in it.
The cellphone is what the PDA could never be... the new portable computer that isn't geeky. It's actually the opposite... a COOL computer. Kinda like an iPod... hehe :)
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named: iPhone. Or something like that.
It might be a cordless phone that connects to your
computer and uses IP. Instead of the copper cables
in your wall. Remove your phones at home and use
your computer instead, it´s a lot cheaper!
You´ll need quite a fast connection though...
With the collaboration SonyEricsson/Apple,
I really don´t think Apple will try to compete.
Any thoughts?
I know I´d go for one if the user interface was
as easy to handle as all other Apple software.
Time to use your broadband for something else!
(And save a thick wad o´cash whilst doing it...)
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