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Where were you last Tuesday when Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone cell phone? Do you remember? By listening to some people, it almost seems that the Earth has stopped spinning for several seconds. However, announcing his arrival on the cellular market, Apple only adds to an already well-stocked supply. Because on average, every two days, a new cell phone made its appearance on the international market.

With its arrival on the market in June in the U.S., the iPhone will most likely mark a point in the evolution of cellular telephony, but nothing comparable to the revolution What caused the arrival of the Macintosh in 1984 or the iPod digital music player in October 2001.
Today in the market for high-end phones, most devices on the market promises to do exactly what the iPhone. Of course, like all products endorsed by Apple, design is nice and the touch screen to delight the eye but for everything else, there are already many high-end devices on the market that allow to do exactly the same thing. Or make and receive calls, connect to the Internet, take pictures, listen to music, watching videos.
Even access to the music service iTunes Store is not new, since Apple allows some Motorola devices to connect to the service for a year. Will the lure of the iPhone is the size of the screen, which will make viewing video and browsing the Internet more enjoyable? Perhaps, but the tablet Nokia N770 offers us several months ago, same thing for his new version, the Nokia N800.
No, the secret of success of the iPhone remains the fact that it is first and foremost an Apple product which, thereby, inherits the image enjoyed by the equipment manufacturer for several years . Even its high price in U.S. dollars, $ 500 for the 4 GB version and $ 600 for the 8GB version, in fact a product of greed.
And there's the question that burns your lips from the beginning of this column. That will provide the equipment here, and when? Well, what has been said that the leadership of the cellular service provider Rogers last week, which does not announce it too soon, yes, the provider discusses with Apple. And for good reason, Rogers is the only operator to operate a GSM cellular network (Global System for Mobile Communication) in the country. Better yet, Rogers is already testing the device with some customers here. Us, do not be surprised to see the iPhone in the hands of someone in Montreal.
Regarding the date of marketing of the device is more difficult to predict at the moment, but I assume that it should be out before Christmas 2007 with us to enjoy the buzz of the moment. Understand that Apple, the priority remains the output of the device in the U.S. Cingular (now renamed from AT & T Wireless), which is expected to be high demand. However, in terms of marketing of new devices, Apple has accustomed us to delays in delivery of products during the first month of availability.
But rest assured, as Steve Jobs himself was confident of selling over ten million units in the U.S. (Canada is considered the 51st state) and in Europe during its fiscal year 2007-08, it 'll have to place equipment on the shelves of shops Rogers. As for the Asian market, the iPhone will not be available until 2008.
Contested mark
It only remains now to see how Apple will come to cope with the holder of the trademark iPhone. For the OEM Cisco owns the rights to the name iPhone since 2000 and most experts in the law of intellectual property agreement that if the case goes to court, Apple will not see the benefit . That's why Apple is already thinking of renaming the product "Apple Phone" and let the public itself to call it "iPhone", or bring himself to give a share of his winnings to Cisco. The most unfortunate in this story is that the Cisco iPhone, launched last November, does not hold a candle of the new product offered by the big boss of Apple.
In this case, Apple does exactly what it accuses of thousands of small businesses that have tried to get out on the market for products compatible with the iPod music player feature and using variations such as "i" or "pod" in the brand their product. After the Beatles played the right to use its company name, which comes from somewhere else to go from Apple Computer to simply Apple, the manufacturer now claims an exclusive right to use the term "pod" in the field of technology and music.
Last September, a young company in Houston found itself in the middle of the storm while she was distributing its software free MyPodder to allow users to manage and ensure the update of their subscriptions to podcasts from a digital music player. The day that little box has decided to offer its software in Mac version, Apple did not appreciate the initiative.
Apple has sent a legal notice to the company to indicate that Apple reserves the exclusive right to use the term "pod" in a context relating to electronic devices and software for playing media files. Since then, manufacturers had to change the name of these websites and even had to change its name, if not completely shut down in response to demands from home Apple.

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