On January 9, 2007, Jobs announced the arrival of the iPhone to the world at the Macworld conference. This revolutionary phone has now become Apple's most important product and Apple's iconic product, sought after by countless consumers and fans. The operating system used by the iPhone was not called iOS from the beginning. Apple announced the name a few years after the iPhone came out. It has now become the most popular mobile operating system in the mobile market. However, many people don’t know that the original names iPhone and iOS did not belong to Apple, but to a Silicon Valley company named Cisco. Are you surprised? Apple's products have always been named starting with "i", such as iMac and iPod, but iPhone and IOS are indeed registered trademarks of Cisco, and Cisco became the owner of these two names many years before Apple. In fact, Cisco and Apple are involved in very different market areas. Cisco focuses on the network market and the enterprise market, while Apple focuses on ordinary consumer groups. If there is any overlap, it is that Cisco has launched home routers and related network utilities. Therefore, there is no competition between these two companies. When Apple decided to use the name iPhone, it seemed that it never cared that Cisco already owned the name. Let’s take a look at the story about Jobs told by Charles Giancarlo, a Cisco executive at the time, to see how Apple won the title. The two names iPhone and iOS came from: At that time, Giancarlo and the others received a call from Jobs himself. Jobs just said lightly, "We want the name iPhone", and did not give any explanation to Cisco. So Cisco's response to Jobs was, "No, we're going to use this name." Soon afterwards, Cisco received a call from Apple's legal department. Apple people believed that Cisco had not used and protected the name "iPhone" well, so Cisco had given up the ownership of the name. From Cisco's perspective, Apple's people are indeed very arrogant and unreasonable. Apple believes that iPhone is the name prepared for Apple. Therefore, after Apple announced the name iPhone, Cisco quickly sued Apple. At this time, Jobs invited Giancarlo to his home for dinner. At that time, Apple and Cisco were bargaining, and Jobs began to show his negotiating charm. . That day happened to be Valentine's Day. Jobs chatted with Giancarlo for a while and then asked: "Can you receive email at home?" ?Giancarlo was surprised, because it was 2007, and broadband Internet was already widely deployed in American homes. What’s more, Giancarlo was an executive of a Silicon Valley IT company, and his company, Cisco, was committed to cutting-edge network technology. Yes, that's what Steve Jobs asked him. Giancarlo understood. Jobs' words hit the mark, in the most beautiful way. Soon after, Cisco dropped its lawsuit against Apple, and Apple and Cisco reached some cooperation plans in the same field. Let’s talk about the name IOS. This is Cisco’s core device operating system (Internet Operating System). Jobs was not involved in the second round of the two parties, but Apple had already completed it before Apple announced that the iPhone system would be renamed iOS. acquisition of this trademark name. In recent years, Cisco has also been developing vigorously. This is classic Steve Jobs, classic Apple.

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