Further to the whole Apple-Cisco saga, New Paradigm colleague Paul Barter has an interesting piece in the Financial Post that recounts Apple’s long history of intellectual property snafus. Paul goes back to beginning where Apple ran into trouble with Beatles’ record label over the Apple trademark. He then goes on to discuss Apple’s run-ins […]
Entries Tagged as 'Apple'
Intellectual property for thee, but not for thou
February 21st, 2007
Tags: intellectual property · Apple
Apple customer service experiences wikinomics
February 20th, 2007
An Apple customer, only known as APPLENEWBIE, sent in his sons computer for repair (the computer wouldn’t turn on) but when he got the computer back it had someone else’s hard drive inside with all their personal data still on it. The resulting story, the timeline for which I have laid out below, is a […]
Tags: wikinomics · Apple · consumer power
iPhony clones the new Apple iPhone user interface
January 16th, 2007
Continuing on the intellectual property theme, news surfaced today that Apple is threatening to sue the folks behind iPhony, a cloned version of Apple’s iPhone user interface that Steve Jobs unveiled a few days ago. The iPhony “skin” provides users who download it with a look-a-like set of icons that they can load on smartphones […]
Tags: intellectual property · Apple