John Paczkowski

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Apple Almost Called the iPhone iPad

If Apple and Cisco hadn’t amicably resolved their 2007 spat over the “iPhone” trademark, Cupertino’s iconic smartphone might have ended up with a very different name. Former Apple ad man Ken Segall says that prior to the iPhone’s debut, the company considered a few other names for the device. Among them: Mobi (a play on mobile), TelePod (get it?), TriPod (three devices in one!) and iPad.


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The center of gravity at the university appears to have shifted. The school now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team.

— Nicholas Thompson, in a New Yorker article entitled, “The End of Stanford?”