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Cisco fesses up to Duke iPhone crash
While walking through downtown San Francisco today, I thought I felt a warm summer breeze. Turns out it was actually a collective sigh of relief coming from nearby Cupertino.
Cisco revelaed that last week's WiFi failures at Duke University were not the result of bandwidth-hogging iPhones flodding the network with data requests. Instead, the incident was attributed to a denial of service vulnerability in its routers.
You can imagine what a headache this would have been for Apple had it been found that the iPhone has a tendnency to blow up university WiFi networks. Many businesses are still forbidding use of the iPhone, and having the device blocked from college campuses could put Apple at risk of losing its beloved "hipster" demographic.
Apple loves universities, for obvious reasons. Take a trip around your local campus and count how many iPods and MacBooks you find. Now imagine the PR nightmare that would ensue if those schools were to tell students to avoid certain Apple products.
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