A quote from the link said "

One of the conditions of the deal was that Cisco wanted to work with Apple to ensure interoperability among the companies' product lines, Chandler said. While specific details of the negotiations haven't been made public, a Cisco representative indicated Thursday that the interoperability clause rejected by Apple would have encompassed a range of products from Cisco and Apple.

"In general, we were asking for the two companies to work together to make our products and technologies more interoperable with each other," said John Noh, a spokesman for Cisco. "In this case, interoperability was an important consideration because, as we've said, we see the potential for convergence of the home phone, cellphone, work phone, and the PC as limitless and we see the network as the foundation for innovation that allows converged devices to deliver the services consumers want."

Now i see what the problem is. Apple could care less about interoperability among the companies' product lines A further quote states.

"Apple likes to keep control of the environment in which their products operate, so that nothing takes away from the value of the products."—Tim Bajarin, Creative Strategies analyst

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/product...le-cisco_x.htm

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