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New Apple iPhone 3G S will kill the Cisco Flip video camera

Can the Cisco Flip video camera coexist with the new Apple iPhone 3G S? I don't think so!

By Brad Reese on Fri, 06/19/09 - 5:22am.

Padmasree WarriorBefore Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior was hired by Cisco, she was the CTO of Motorola and dismissed in her blog the introduction of the Apple iPhone. However within 9 months of the Apple iPhone's introduction, Motorola sales had collapsed by more than $4 billion (Page 1) and Motorola operating earnings dropped $3.8 billion to a loss of $534 million, leaving Warrior with absolutely no future as the CTO of Motorola.

In my opinion, Warrior is now repeating her Motorola failure at Cisco. For example, during the first 9 months of Cisco's 2009 fiscal year under Warrior's leadership as CTO, Cisco sales plummeted $1.6 billion (Page 4) and operating income nose-dived $1 billion. Additionally, a UBS analyst is reporting that Cisco's losing market share across the board.

Today, Apple will begin selling its new iPhone 3G S and in my opinion, it will kill the Cisco Flip video camera.

How so you may ask?

Well, lets do a comparison of which device makes it easier to upload a video to YouTube.

Apple iPhone 3G S

Apple iPhone 3G S Video Recording

Apple iPhone 3G S - How To Publish Videos To YouTube
 

Cisco Flip Video Camera

Cisco Flip Video Camera

Cisco Flip Video Camera - How To Publish Videos To YouTube

I rest my case!

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Related story:

Apple fans flock to buy iPhone 3G S


What's your take, can the Cisco Flip video camera coexist with the new Apple iPhone 3G S?

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Cisco is doomed in consumer

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Cisco's continued struggle for relevance in the consumer market is sad. It's like the middle aged guy down the street with the ponytail, the amp in the garage and the Kinks T-shirt that keeps talking about making it big in the music business. It's like if John Deere made motor-scooters. Outside Linksys, which is off its books and has never been integrated, from a strategic, business or cultural standpoint, and Scientific Atlanta -- a video infrastructure company with the clunkiest of all set-top boxes on the market -- its whole consumer strategy is just without substance. It's definitely done Apple and others a favor by buying Flip, which will languish in its current state while others pass it by technologically and in partnership with others (where Cisco has really shown its growing skill erosion lately).

If Cisco wants relevance, marketshare and serious consideration in the consumer market, it needs to make bigger moves. Ironically, MOTO would be a good start. It would give them the gear they lack on the mobile space and a serious entry into the handset biz. TiVO would even make sense, giving them some solid consumer loyalty AND a workable and attractive UI for its currently Atari-like STBs.

Cisco's consumer play is like a rich college kid living off its parents money, spending too much on too little with no real eye to the future, having fun but achieving little, and embarrassing its family and friends.

When you say "Outside

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When you say "Outside Linksys... and Scientific Atlanta... [Cisco's] whole consumer strategy is just without substance", isn't that like saying "outside Macs, iPods and iPhones Apple's whole consumer strategy is just without substance"? Cisco makes billions of dollars from those two consumer lines; how can you dismiss them? BTW, it is the cable companies that largely decide what a STB UI looks like, not SA or Moto.

I think its cute!

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I think its cute that Cisco wants to be like Apple when it grows up!

Sincerely,

Brad Reese
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Brad, what do you want to be

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Brad, what do you want to be when you grow up? Judging from the non-stop envy you display, I'd say you want to be a Cisco employee.

Would love to be a Cisco employee

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I would love to be a Cisco employee when I grow up.

However, Cisco has "standards" that need to be met in order for someone to get hired by Cisco.

And as we all know, both Network World readers and Cisco know I can't meet those "standards."

So yes, I genuinely admire the employees of Cisco (keep in mind that there are only a few whom I don't admire).

In my opinion, Cisco needs to get its incredible "mojo back."

Unfortunately in my opinion, that won't happen under the leadership of Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior!

Sincerely,

Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished

different markets

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The flip costs about $120 - $200, no molthly fees. It is an impulse buy, no big deal. It simply does video, that's it.

The iphone is much much more expensive... they are simply too different to compete much... Sure some iphone users wont buy a flip because they have that functionality... but they may buy one for their kids...

--Ed

Cisco Flip video camera is for kids

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Hi Ed,

Thank you for clarifying that the Cisco Flip video camera is for kids.

Additionally, you state:

"The flip costs about $120 - $200, no monthly fees."

In the U.S., Apple announced that the iPhone 3G S will cost US$199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model.

Also, are you saying that Cisco Flip video camera owners don't pay monthly fees for their Internet connection?

How in the heck do Flip owners share their videos without an Internet connection?

Furthermore, doesn't the Flip have to be "attached" to something in order to upload video to YouTube?

Finally, how much does that "thing" that Flip has to be "attached to" cost?

Sincerely,

Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished

Your same arguments applies

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Your same arguments applies to the Apple iphone. A person with an iphone still needs a internet connection to upload the files just like a flip user. There are obviously recurring costs of the voice/data plan with At&t or Verizon wireless that would make the iphone more expensive. Duh.

Just because they put cameras on cell phones now all digital cameras are obsolete? Uh no.

Flip video and iphones are not in competing markets. The last I heard people by iphones more for the mp3 storage/cell phone use. The video camera is an added feature along with the 3g speed.

I do agree with your article about Warrior however most of the decline is obviously from the recession. Motorola is not known for their innovation and who knows why Cisco chose her. Man this article is like swiss cheese there are so many holes in this argument.

Disagree

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Disagree with you.

What do the Cisco Flip and pay phones have in common?

You guessed it!

Brad Reese
BradReese.Com Cisco Refurbished

uploading

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It's the exact same process for both: sign in, select videos, upload.

If this writer was trying to do a fair comparison how easy it is to upload videos to YouTube, then why did he include the Flip instructions about MySpace and other web sites other than to make it look like a longer process? Maybe the instructions to upload videos from the iPhone to MySpace and other web sites should be uploaded as well if you're doing a fair comparison, don't you think?

I think we've got a chronic Cisco hater on our hands.

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