The iPhone’s new name: “iPod” (?)
January 13, 2007 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
Because Cisco owns the product name for iPod, Steve Jobs has to either do some battling in court or settle things in a friendly manner and call his iPhone something else.
My brazened prediction? Sooner or later, Apple will just have one product line for portable media and integrate a phone component with it. Already, the (Apple) iPhone eats into the video capabilities of the 5th Gen iPod - with a widescreen advantage, as well as shoves the iPod nano with its 8GB of flash storage offering.
So what now? Sooner or later, the iPod line will expand to offer an iPod with phone capabilities and Apple will simply call it the iPod. This makes sense to me (although you’ll prolly flame this post for it — its all good) because:
- (1) why should Apple release two separate product lines with similar features?
- (2) the “iPod” has a stronger branding
Okay, violent reaction time.
since its connectivity is a major factor of the phone, Why not, iCon? That would have double meaning, iconic and connectable.
Introducing, The iCon.
Get your iCons, now!
Would you like an iCon?
hehe
After all, the iPod name had nothing to do with music…