

Things heat up even more between Apple and Cisco






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CISCO in consumer space?
By ChipDude on 1/14/2007 7:42:44 PM , Rating: 2
LINKSYS was a smart buy for CISCO. Turnkey with established business and retail prescence.

Thinking they can take on Apple in the retail / consumer space is a bit laughable.

Unlike TIVO or some upstart that is coming with a clean business plan, CISCO will for sure come at it with their network prospective and think they can overwhelm it. This is like INTEL in the communication/consumer space. They'll be rudely suprrised. Unlike Microsoft CISCO doesn't have billions in the bank and a CEO that with a reputation and record of plugging away till they get a winner.

No surprise why CISCO is suing Apple. They may win the lawsuite and come away with a few hundred million. But I'll tell you all that iTV is a broken business model.

That will be for another post.. Unlike the iPOD music revoluation that broke newground, iTV is simply a gadget that people don't want, need for its complexity. It fills no big need...

RE: CISCO in consumer space?
By ironchef on 1/15/2007 6:45:55 PM , Rating: 2
My only question is what media content it can play, it seems Apple does not display the dvix standard which it very popular for TV series downloads etc, so if cisco can better the number of formats it can display then it will be a product in more demand


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