Apple in its grandiose announcement today has delivered the most amazing news, giving Apple’s mobile OS a name. The world is stunned with this, the most original name ever conceived for an operating system!
Yes, that is correct. The company that names all of their products so they begin with the letter “i” has finally after multiple releases of devices running the OS has decided to name the aforementioned OS. It took many painstaking months to come up with this amazing name and now we can all be wowed by its magnificence.
Ok so by now you should have figured out that the above paragraphs are extremely sarcastic. In all seriousness, how can this even be an announcement? Why couldn’t they have come up with something else at least a little original? Maybe they should have contacted the team that names their desktop OS to come up with something less lame.
On top of this super crappy name, it is not the first IOS. Cicsco (which is likely super angry right now) has an operating system called “IOS” that is used on its routers. Originally called the “Internetwork Operating System“, IOS’s only naming difference is the capitalization of the “i”.
I am not a lawyer and would never try to be, but I suspect that Steve Jobs is going to be getting some calls from lawyers over this one.
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UPDATE:: In looking around it looks like I was not the only one to pick up on the Apple IOS name stealing. Crunch Gear also has an article on it.
UPDATE #2:: Apparently this time Apple actually asked Cisco first if they could use the iOS name for their OS. This still doesn’t change the fact that it is a terribly lame name for the operating system.
