Apple sues Amazon over name App Store
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- monNom0
renamed "Apps Shoppe"
- randommail0
I fuckin hate lawyers.
- raf0
As I said, 'appstore' used to be a trademark of Salesforce.com—Apple's strong ally these days.
- omg0
I've never heard of anyone using the term "app store" before apple. I guess it became "generic" when Apple created another product that was worth stealing.
In all honesty, Amazon has been suing others for doing the same. Remember "one-click shopping."?
- Aye, mentioned above. Apple were the only company to license one-click from Amazonkingsteven
- i guess this is payback time.kingsteven
- ayeomg
- hotroddy0
There is no doubt apple popularized the 'app' term. No one should be surprised they are suing over this. Everything they do is trademarked. It's part of their brilliant marketing strategy that makes otherwise very techy sounding products approachable and non-intimidating. They intentionally make it tacky so that soccer moms can digest it.
- mg330
I heard that Macho Man Randy Savage was suing Mexico for inventing nachos.
- LOLphasetransitions
- its not Randy Nacho man Savage though :Pmoldero
- yeah he has no case.Boz
- raf0
When Steve Jobs announced the App Store, both appstore.com and the trade mark 'appstore' belonged to Salesforce.com
Now, appstore.com belongs to Apple, and the trade 'app store' is trade mark pending. The trade mark 'appstore' was abandoned by Salesforce.com
- the owner of Salesforce killed himself by decapitation somehow mysteriouslymoldero
- kingsteven0
The creators of Flash, Jonathan Gay and Robert Tatsumi left Macromedia to found Greenbox (the company that creates those interactive power usage meters) when they realised that Flash banner ads responsible for 20% of all residential power usage.
FACT
- phasetransitions0
this is so dumb!
waste of money and effort
like packaging with colored ink on it
JUST DIE ALREADY STEVE JUST DIE
- CanHasQBN0
It's not a "generic" term. It is only generic-sounding because Apple has made it so popular. Remember, Apple was the computer company that used the term "Applications" for it's software. Windows called it "Programs". Have you heard the term "app" before Apple came along?
The moment I heard "app" I thought of it as a "mini application", and that's what they were when they first came out on the iPhone.
No every company uses the word app. If they didn't, they'd just look dumb.
- Did Apple really come up with applications? Never heard thatabettertomorrow
- (No=Now)CanHasQBN
- well the file extension has been .app as long as i can remember.kingsteven
- You don't have to hear it, just look at a Mac and PC. Apple uses "Applications", PC uses "Programs".CanHasQBN
- are you seriously arguing that Apple invented the term applicaitons? That's just nuts.Boz
- I've used in the 80s the term applicaitions when visiting my mom's IT dept. in a bank that has nothing to do with Apple.. and yes.. people addressed those applications as apps even then.Boz
- and yes.. people addressed those applications as apps even then.Boz
- Apple took it from others.. they certainly didn't invent the term applications nor apps.Boz
- http://en.wikipedia.…Boz
- moldero0
Apple should pay that spanish bitch for use of the sun
http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpps…
I apologize for the Fox link
- raf0
Just in case Amazon begins to look like the good guys here:
Amazon Gives Kindle Book-Swapping Service Lendle The Axe
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/21…
- raf0
They must defend their TM. Otherwise they risk genericization.
Just like those brands: Hoover, Velcro, Aspirin, Catseye, Escalator, Heroin(!), Laundromat, Thermos, Pilates, Videotape, Zipper, Yo-Yo...- really... Videotape?Dodecahedron
- http://en.wikipedia.…raf
- hmm.Dodecahedron
- Heroin, catchyabettertomorrow
- kingsteven0
"Amazon needs to just contest this idiocy with patent office"
remember this? apple were the only people to licence 1-click ordering from amazon... for the app store.
- sorry for itunes, forgot you can buy music on there.kingsteven
- utopian0
GFY Apple
- abettertomorrow0
Didn't Apple Records sue Apple once upon a time?
- BusterBoy0
Fruit need to launch a class action against Apple Inc...
- abettertomorrow0
Let's go see what the guys over at FlashDen think about this...
- randommail0
So McDonald's should sue Apple for the word "Mac".
- They should make a burger called MacProDodecahedron
- or McPro...wateverDodecahedron
- BigMac ProDodecahedron
- BK has the Whopper Jr.
So McDonald's should have the Big Mac Mini!randommail