Apple spent 3 years creating the iPhone and has been planning to use that name for years as well, so I don't know why they wouldn't have dealt with these issues before launching their new product. I guess they may have to spend some of that $11.9 billion in cash they currently have saved up.

No, it doesn't "beg the question" it "raises the question." Shame on you CBC.

When you really think about it a company other then Apple using the "i" prefix in a product name is pretty much just looking to drum up some rediculous law suit. I think everyone on the face of the earth knows that is something Apple has used for years and would intend on carrying on with the trend. Personally I think there needs to me more ethics shown in business because trying to name a product based on another companies legacy, then going to court over it is just wrong.

Why did they bother to call it the iPhone anyways?? Because of the iPod, it doesn't matter WHAT the phone is called! All they had to do was call it Apple Phone or some other terribly generic name that wasn't copyrighted. No one would have cared, and called it the iPhone anyways. In Britain, they call every mp3 player an "iPod", even though it may be a Zen or some other brand. Apple doesn't need to officially call this thing the iPhone. Trademarks rulings can't determine what people will casually refer to the phone as.

Well maybe Apple should take all these other guys to court that have copied their trend setting "i"Mac/Pod/Whatever to court. See how that sits in their collective hats.