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Apple Sues Over iPhone Smartphone Skins
ghostcorps writes "Australian Newspaper 'The Age' reports that developers of iPhone skins (skins for smartphones that resemble the iPhone) have been legally attacked by Apple. Beyond that, bloggers who have reported on the skins have been threatened with legal action as well. From the article: 'Ironically, Apple's attempts to have the files removed from the web have only given the skins greater publicity, and they have already begun spreading to other websites. The issue marks a distinct change in tone for many bloggers and journalists, who just last week praised Apple for its 'revolutionary' and 'game-changing' phone despite being unable to conduct a proper hands-on test of the product.'"
Why is Apple suing? Isn't the iPhone a Cisco product? Wierd, I'm confused.
By Apple's reasoning, if I published an article that mentioned that The Pirate Bay has copies of OSX you can dowload, they would sue me. Good thing that no pro-Apple people read Slashdot, otherwise I would have to post anonymously...
You are reading a copy of my copyrighted post.
I totally agree with you; Apple should be stopped from killing babies and using their blood as ink to write letters threatening to frame people for murder and put them in the chair if they don't stop even mouthing the word "iphone"... bastards.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
If they really want to keep the "cool" look, they should make the iPhone smoke cigarettes... everyone knows smoking makes you cool.
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Now that they are suing people for posting leaked Windows source code^H^H^H DeCSS^H^H^H The Grey Album^H^H^H Paris Hilton pr0n^H^H^H Metallica MP3s^H^H^H iPhone skins for Smartphones, they will surely vanish from the Internet forever.
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Totally, teenagers all smoke and they seem pretty on the ball
That, sir, depends directly on what they are smoking.
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Okay, pardon me if I get details wrong..
A company that started out with a computer based on a hack of a calculator chip,
using a name that the Beatles used for their music company, Apple Records,
got sued over that, settled with one of the terms that they'd never make musical instruments..
(the sosume beep sound is allegedly named in reference to this)
Fast forward..
A phone out with a name used for a phone by a company that was bought by Cisco, who ignored it up until oh, December 2006,
being sued over that, (results not yet determined), and now they're suing folks for a utility and a cluster of 32x32 icons?
Irony Mobius:
And at the same time, they drop 'Computer' from their name, leaving themselves open for The Beatles reps to sue again.
Oh! The Fees I Sees!
Infinity is overrated, Infinity+1, now that's cool!