Cisco and Apple: Best friends forever?

Andy Abramson of VoIP Watch blog gives six reasons why Cisco and Apple will end up working together, saying that both parties have benefits to offer each other. Meanwhile, the WSJ is reporting that Apple and Cisco will likely resolve their differences by the end of this week (Apple’s deadline to respond to Cisco’s lawsuit is Thursday). The outcome will be interoperability, which is what Cisco says it wanted all along. The WSJ says interoperability is in Steve Jobs’ thoughts, given his call last week for a common standard for copy-protection software. What has this to do with Cisco? Imagine a Linksys box allowing customers to play their iTunes-purchased music around the home.