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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. Apple == EVIL by bleble · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's nothing new from Apple. Remember that Apple always ignores everyones patents when it doesn't feel like paying for them (all the Nokia thing), but if someone else uses their patents Apple sues them. Same thing here. Apple and Steve Jobs are just being retards and think they can do whatever they want. And still MS gets blamed for being evil and Apple with its fully closed garden is some kind of white knight...

    1. Re:Apple == EVIL by geekoid · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Apple tries to control what you can do with the device you bought, insist on getting money every time you want to do something with that device. The abuse the legal system, and twist contracts even if they have to 'shop for judges'

      So, yeah, evil.

      Could the be more evil? sure.

      " activist judges"
      I see the republican meme has gotten fully into your brain.

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  2. Well, it's obvious by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 5, Funny

    "App store" is short for "Apple store"! Of *course* nobody else can use it! Not even if they're selling actual fruit!