At 11:58 PM -0400 8/6/10, Lawrence Sica wrote:
>On Jun 8, 2010, at 10:32 PM, David Cake <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>      So, is there any real news this year apart from Safari 5 that
>>  isn't iPhone related?
>>      Should they consider just breaking WWDC into two, iOS and
>>  everything else, conferences?
>>      They already seem to have a completely separate WebObjects conference.
>>
>>      Also, iOS? Really strikes me as a dick move. Will make google
>>  massively irritating to use for anyone who works with either iOS or
>>  Cisco gear, which between them should cover pretty much 90% of the
>>  tech industry.
>
>Not really, unless you know networking most ppl have no clue what ios is.

        The point is that it makes both things much less useful as 
search terms. Got a problem with ssl on your iphone? Google ios ssl 
and there are already 294,000 search responses, all of which are 
wrong.

>Also cisco gave them the ok.

        Yeah, Cisco gave them the OK, so there are no trademark law 
issues. Still doesn't make it a good idea.

>  Dont read so much into the name from that angle   And i can 
>guarantee the general public has no clue or cares.  The keynote was 
>about what it had to be to combat google and the press.

The keynote was to developers. They can cope with naming the OS 
something that uniquely identifies it.
        Cheers
                David
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