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Cisco Cius: Cisco Unveils Android-Based, Business-Focus Tablet Computer

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Thanks Kara Wilson, VP of Collaborative Solutions Marketing. As a corporate division manager myself, you identified the very cornerstones we plan to implement in Q3 - synergy, paradigm shift, and corporate MBA tech speak. Getting signed Cius purchase approval from corporate now.

From the video: "Cisco Cius redefines industry paradigms about how, where and when work gets done. It's designed from the ground-up to meet the needs to businesses like yours who compete in today's global economy."

shivers It reminds me of some of the copywriting at the last company I've worked for.

Dilbert strips nail that kind of lingo pretty often. It bothers me to no end.

It also shows how copywriting can be very difficult: the opposite of that is companies who act super buddy-buddy with their users. That also can get irritating fast.

I stopped watching about 20 seconds into the video. Did she even turn the thing on?

I watched the whole thing yet can't remember a thing she said, a strange experience. I felt a little like I was listening to the school teacher from Charlie Brown.

No, she didn't switch it on or show any kind of demo, I probably would have remembered that.

I jumped around in the clip, looking for it in action, but never saw anything...

I also gave up.

When I woke up this morning I said to myself, "Self, today you should shift a paradigm!" Turns out I was too tired to get around to that today. Synergy is doable.

tl;dr:

"designed for business"

"next wave of collaborative experiences"

"fundamentally change"

"ushering in a new era of productivity"

"redefines industry paradigms"

"designed from the ground-up"

"global economy"

"breadth of capabilities"

"open extensible platform"

"productive experience on the go"

"collaboration architecture"

"cloud computing"

"total cost of ownership"

"comprehensive suite of unified communication and collaboration applications"

"broad array of capabilities"

"intuitive contacts driven user experience"

"a new way of working"

"a tremendous competitive advantage"

That about sums it up. And no, she doesn't ever turn it on.

You could have just linked to the bullshit generator:

http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html

Unfortunately, all that crap is like caviar to their target market - bigco C-level executives.

Of course, the path to buying ONE of these things is a long, twisting road through sales reps and the like. Why can't I just buy one online at a reasonable price?

Where's Cisco's profit in that? Although it may be hard to buy one, you can probably get ten for free as a pilot program if you're considering buying a thousand.

Seriously, I imagine that resellers like CDW will have these once they are released.

It seems that large vendors miss out on bottom-up sales opportunities. Imagine if I as a developer could sign up for a free, three month test drive without asking permission from my boss or anybody else but Cisco. I'd bring the thing to work, show it off, build some little app that would display order shipment information from the ERP system, and then show it to the VP of Sales. A few months later, the Cisco sales rep would be having a high-level conversation where the value proposition was already made. Instead, Cisco will concentrate on convincing the VP of Sales and the VP of IT that a million dollar tablet purchase would be successful and that one could indeed connect the ERP system to it.

I love TI's supposed entry into the hobby market with its $4.30 demo device. If nothing else, it's a cheap way to cement brand recognition with a bunch of techies. It's gravy if their $0.75 chips make into some consumer product because the demo board was the path of least resistance to building a prototype.

What wmf said, plus the fact that they need a long sales cycle to allow them to actually have something that works. She moved a piece of plastic around but I don't think she turned it on.

Obviously this product isn't even close to release and is bound to be expensive, but there are some interesting ideas here. The tablet has a dock that looks like a phone; it replaces your Cisco IP phone. The dock has HDMI and USB; it also replaces your thin client. It looks like Cisco is trying to learn a bunch of lessons from netbooks and tablets and apply them to enterprise IT.

Some things I've noticed:

- Intel Atom-based (1.6ghz) Android Device. Is that port mature yet? I didn't think it was. - Includes Android Market. Ok, so the SDK compiles to Dalvik, so existing apps will probably run just fine on it. Right? - Includes Firefox for Android? Isn't it still in pre-alpha stage?

A lot of this smells like fish vapor to me.

The idea of the phone as a dock for the tablet is an elegant design concept. Let's hope it supports SIP.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6789/ps...

At least they got further along than MS Courier. They actually have a useless prototype, rather than a vaporvid[1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI

And now we know why the iPad didn't ship with a front-facing camera.

But cisco must really be steamed, what with Apple calling their mobile OS "iOS" and integrating face-time to the new iphones.

IOS is a Cisco trademark and Apple actually licenses it off Cisco.

http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/cisco_and_apple_agreeme...

So they're probably not too steamed :)

edit: iphone was a cisco trademark too and Apple either licensed it or bought it outright.

Apple licensed the use of "iOS" from Cisco.

Cisco ? They never got wireless working on the Flop Camera.

Look for its 4000$ price tag buried on an overly complex invoice sheet near you! Great, I shudder for the moment when my boss will actually nod his head in agreement when Bell Canada asks if we need these.

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