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Apple: an 'App Store' Is Not a Store For Apps

Posted by Soulskill on from the do-you-read-the-words-you-write dept.

recoiledsnake writes "What would be your first guess about what an app store sells? Don't be fooled, Apple warns, the phrase 'app store' is not generic and can only be used to describe Cupertino's... um, app store? 'Apple denies that, based on their common meaning, the words "app store" together denote a store for apps,' Apple said in a Thursday filing with a California district court. All this notwithstanding that Jobs himself used the phrase generically while referring to Android app stores. We've previously discussed this ongoing legal battle."

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  1. Re:Apple == EVIL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    So what you're saying is that Monsanto is the biggest evil on this planet.

  2. Re:Apple == EVIL by gilesjuk · · Score: 0, Troll

    XBox 360, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3 all impose similar restrictions.

    A phone is not a computer in the general sense. You really don't want rogue software on a mobile device. This week at work someone had put their Android device on our network via Wifi. It was harvestingWindows logins and trying to login with them. Such things don't happen with a policed application store.

    Apple has a walled garden, but the Android app stores are full of weeds and there's landmines under the lawn.