September 27th 2012

Official farewell to the Cisco Cius

After annoucing it a few months ago, Cisco have today officially “killed” the Cius tablet, acknowledging that they haven’t been able to scratch, never mind dent the iPad’s prevelence in the business marketplace. It was always going to be an uphill task for Cisco to displace the iPad even in loyal Cisco enterprise customers, however a combination of an extremely high price point, late delivery, buggy software and the fact that it’s “not Apple” have resulted in today’s final death knell.

So millions of dollars have been burnt with little to show for it. Cisco is now focusing on pushing it’s Jabber collaboration apps onto both the iPad and Android platforms.

The offical EoS article is available here:

Not much comfort for the few (and we mean few) enterprises that splashed out on it…

Barry Hesk
Intrinsic Network Solutions