Sorry, Apple, but you don't own all the ideas ever

[Shane for Wax]

mashable.com/2011/07/07/apple-amazon-lawsuit/

Amazon can continue to use the phrase “App Store” to describe its mobile download storefront, despite Apple’s request that it be forced to remove the name while awaiting a trademark-infringement trial in October.

Dear Apple, you don't own everything dealing with apps or anything of the like. Amazon is better than you, anyways, and so is Android. Quit being greedy a-holes.

Somehow I knew that Amazon would win out on this.

n her opinion, Judge Phyllis Hamilton agreed that Apple had invested in advertisement for the name and that people recognize the term. “However, there is also evidence that the term ‘app store’ is used by other companies as a descriptive term for a place to obtain software applications for mobile devices,” she wrote in the opinion.

Agreed.

[Amaranth]

Apple is now suing apples for using their trademark.

Also, they're suing anyone named Macintosh or whose nickname is " Mac."

Why? Because FUCK YOU, WE'RE APPLE! That's why.

I'm more interested in whether or not they'll win the suit against them over iCloud. Going against Amazon isn't as major to me as going against a small company, because Amazon stands a fighting chance.

[malicious_bloke]

Steve Jobs should take out an injunction against al gore. We all know the internet was really apple's idea all along.

[MaybeNever]

There was a story in The Onion some years ago about Microsoft patenting ones and zeroes, which entitled them to put the kibosh on just about anything of any sort whatsoever, since almost everything is rooted in mathematics at some level. Seems like that story would be more appropriate of Apple these days.

[Amaranth]

Jul 7, 2011 14:04:25 GMT -5 MaybeNever said:

There was a story in The Onion some years ago about Microsoft patenting ones and zeroes, which entitled them to put the kibosh on just about anything of any sort whatsoever, since almost everything is rooted in mathematics at some level. Seems like that story would be more appropriate of Apple these days.

Though in Apple's case, it'd probably be a patent on the letter "i."

[MaybeNever]

N that case, guess we'd better avod usng that letter to head off any future lawsuts. Just n case.

[Damen]

Jul 7, 2011 8:31:43 GMT -5 Shane for Wax said:

Quit being greedy a-iHoles.

Fix'd. ;D

[Amaranth]

Jul 7, 2011 15:21:35 GMT -5 MaybeNever said:

N that case, guess we'd better avod usng that letter to head off any future lawsuts. Just n case.

You have a pont. e wouldn't want to ncur the wrath of Apple.

[matante]

I often mispell "ideas" as "idead". My friend and I determined that this was the name of an Apple product for the imminent zombie apocalypse. What it's supposed to do and whether it targets the zombies or the nomadic survivors is unknown so far. Perhaps it aims to claim ownership of zombiism and every bitten victim will have to hurry up and pay before they turn.

[Napoleon the Clown]

iDead is actually gonna be what initiates the zombie apocalypse. It'll be sold to all those hipsters that think having a pulse is too mainstream but lack the cajones to just pull a Kurt Cobain.

[Haseen]

Jul 8, 2011 16:02:59 GMT -5 Amaranth said:

Jul 7, 2011 15:21:35 GMT -5 MaybeNever said:

N that case, guess we'd better avod usng that letter to head off any future lawsuts. Just n case.

You have a pont. e wouldn't want to ncur the wrath of Apple.

But if people started typing that way, it would make it easier for them to claim the letter 'i'.

And I'm only half-joking...

[Amaranth]

Jul 8, 2011 21:29:26 GMT -5 matante said:

I often mispell "ideas" as "idead". My friend and I determined that this was the name of an Apple product for the imminent zombie apocalypse. What it's supposed to do and whether it targets the zombies or the nomadic survivors is unknown so far. Perhaps it aims to claim ownership of zombiism and every bitten victim will have to hurry up and pay before they turn.

My mom pronounces "idea" as "idear." dating service?