iOS: Apple once again picks a Cisco name for one of its products

Nicholas Deleon

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Monday, June 7th, 2010

This is nothing that a fat cheque won’t solve, but Apple has changed the name of iPhone OS to iOS. IOS is a named owned by Cisco Systems. You’ll recall that the name iPhone was also owned by Cisco. Is Apple so wealthy that it can go around taking trademarked name, paying the owners for the rights, or is the person in charge of coming up with names just a silly goose? Probably the former: Apple has money to buy whatever it wants these days.

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