Apple Goes After the Term 'Podcast'

Udo Schmitz writes "Earlier this year, Apple went up against companies using the word 'pod' in their product names. Now, Apple is going after the term 'podcasting'. Wired has the complete text of Apple's cease-and-desist letter to Podcast Ready." From the article: "Robert Scoble -- whose own company, PodTech, may be at risk in this witch hunt -- has weighed in on the issue by suggesting that the tech community as a whole adopt other terms like "audiocast" and 'videocast' (or alternately, 'audcast' and 'vidcast') to describe this type of content, while other folks feel that fighting Apple and generating a ton of negative press for Cupertino is the best solution. Our take? Apple should be happy that its golden goose is getting so much free publicity, and if it isn't, we know of several companies that probably wouldn't mind if zencast, zunecast, or sansacast became the preferred terminology."

Comments

Not to be outdone...

[richdun]

Sony has announced it is going after the words "walk" and "man," though a couple decades late. Come on, had to make this into an anti-Sony argument. Just wouldn't feel right...

Letest News: Feds confiscate Anakin's Podracer

[Dr. Hok]

Enough is enough, the young Jedi reportedly said,I convert to the dark side of the force!

Re:There goes my week!

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

How about "portacast"?

Reminds me of portapotty.

Hmm. How about "portapoddy"? (-:

Re:There goes my week!

[Firehed]

After a series of battles, the two firms agreed to live and let live, but the controversy flared up again when Apple Computer went into the music business with iTunes. I'm not sure where it stands now

Apple won.