Christmas 2007. Some late shopping parent/spouse/etc out shopping for a teenager/wife/etc's wishlist craps a brick when they find an "iPhone" on sale in the clearance bin at a Best Buy. Promptly takes it home beaming with pride for getting such a steal, only to get a big surprise when the receiver opens the gift. "Merry Christmas! I got you an iPhone!" Yippeee!
Which one do you think consumers will be thinking about when they hear the word "iPhone"?
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I can see it now...
Christmas 2007. Some late shopping parent/spouse/etc out shopping for a teenager/wife/etc's wishlist craps a brick when they find an "iPhone" on sale in the clearance bin at a Best Buy. Promptly takes it home beaming with pride for getting such a steal, only to get a big surprise when the receiver opens the gift. "Merry Christmas! I got you an iPhone!" Yippeee!
Which one do you think consumers will be thinking about when they hear the word "iPhone"?
LOL, I was about to post a similar comment when I read the article on the front page. I totally agree, this might result in consumer confusion.
Actually it will go more like this.
Apple iPhone on Ebay...and you'll get a rotten apple from the grocery store with that Cisco iPhone in the mail :)