StorksforlegsElon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark
steltekCisco owned “iPhone” and was actively using it to sell products. Weirder things have happened.
To which Cisco replied “okay” and forced Apple to agree to an unknown but likely ludicrous licensing fee.
Twitter got Apple money right now? Because even Elons billions aint shit compared to Microsofts literal trillions.
Microsoft doesn’t have trillions. Where did you get that from?
dawnerdMicrosoft is a 2.6T dollar company…
Market capitalization means that every share of MSFT combined at the current price is worth $2.6T. The company has $100B cash on hand. That’s actual cash and investments that could be easily converted to cash. Substantially less than $2 trillion.
AphoticDevOh, only a $100 billion? Wow what poors, guess they’re fucked.
Yeah, but by that logic, Musk isn’t a billionaire either.
And as a public company, Microsoft has a lot more options to leverage their equity than a private individual or company does.
Musk owns stock worth billions. Stock is a liquid asset, meaning he has billions in liquid assets. The $2.6T market cap is what the public shares of MSFT are “worth.” They are owned mostly by people and orgs other than Microsoft, meaning that value is not an asset to Microsoft.
Your comment is low-effort. Don’t do that.
FeydaikinIsn’t that still a fuck-ton more than what any of their competitors have at their disposal?
danTwitter got Apple money right now?
Twitter’s got so little money that they can’t pay all their bills, lol
Apparently they've hired an intern level designer then fired them after 2.5 weeks, once they handed in the design proposal.
Actually iOS, not iPhone. I think if it were iPhone itself, an actually marketed product from either Apple or Cisco, it would have ended a bit differently. But in both cases, it was just iOS, the operating system of the marketed products.
In both cases, iOS was a selling point of the product, but not the product itself.
No, it was actually iPhone:
Huh, I never heard of that one, I knew they licensed iOS.
appleinsider.com/…/cisco_licenses_ios_name_to_app…
I’m surprised Cisco let iPhone go so easily, considering the immediate popularity of the brand when Apple released theirs.
Cisco licenses iOS name to Apple, screenshot shows iWork on iPhone | AppleInsider
Before Apple announced its newly renamed iOS, the company came to an agreement with the owner of the trademark, Cisco. Also, a screenshot temporarily shown on Apple's website suggested Keynote, part of the iWork suite, could be coming to the iPhone.
Apple and Cisco settled their dispute on February 20, 2007. Both companies will be allowed to use the “iPhone” name in exchange for “exploring interoperability” between Apple’s products and Cisco’s services and other unspecified terms
Seriously, they let it go for nothing. When did Apple and Cisco ever integrate products?..
Honestly, there would probably be far more backlash against them than benefit. But it would be hilarious.
I wonder if they got some help with early app development, or something. I’ve always avoided Cisco, so I don’t know if they offered any mobile management or monitoring tools early on.