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Apple Loses 'iPhone' Name Rights in Mexico over Phonetic Similarity [Updated]
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You're right, that's the only way Apple knows how to compete: buy shutting down the competition.
Apparently you haven't... Mexico is amazing.
It's hilarious how bad apple is making themselves look. God what a bunch of tools....
Another anti-Apple newbie... do you actually know anything about the company at all? Or did you just come here to stick a spoon in and stir the mix?
Huh? It's a telecom, not a phone manufacturer. How is Apple shutting down competition in Mexico by seeking rights to use a similar sounding but different name for a hardware product versus a service?
iMayan!
I'm waiting for the Badda Bing Badda Bang Badda Boom Phone!!
But really, does all this really matter!? When December 21st rolls around, we'll all be dead anyways...
I'm waiting for the Badda Bing Badda Bang Badda Boom Phone!!
But really, does all this really matter!? When December 21st rolls around, we'll all be dead anyways...
If I were Tim Cook I would just stop selling the iPhone in Mexico. iFone and iPhone are two different trademarks, even if they do sound the same. Since iFone is a telecommunications company, just stop allowing them to carry the iPhone. If there is no other telecommunication company in Mexico, well too bad for Mexican citizens, no iPhone for you.
Linksys (then InfoGear) iPhone - released in 1998
Apple iMac - first released in 1998
NTT DoCoMo's i-mode - released in 1999
You were saying?
I have been to Mexico. I accidentally consumed a fountain soft drink at a fast food restaurant and put ice in it. I spent the next week at home sitting on the toilet.
Thats like everywhere you go down south.
Dominican, Cuba, etc.
I just pretty much accept that I'm going to get the ***** when I'm down in those places.
Apple is not protecting their innovation, they're eliminating anyone who tries to compete in the same market as them. They are trying to create a monopoly so that they can fill their pockets with the consumers' money.
So you're saying that a grocery store, to which an apple is much more relevant, should not be able to advertise that they sell apples?
ISHYGDDT
You might even say they overactively protected it.
So they should sue everyone they can just to make sure noone is "copying" their "innovation"?
Like stealing money from a company who is only interested in honest competition? I seriously wonder if Apple fanboys read what they write before they post it.
This is of course after Cisco successfully sued Apple over the iPhone name, which they owned prior to 2007. Of course Apple actually asked for iOS, it would have been quite the shock to Cisco to have to go through all those proceedings a 2nd time with Apple.
similar stupidity
My brother had to go through something similar recently with Warner Bros who were trying to sue him for using the name iNCEPTIONAL.
Their claim was that he was piggybacking off the film Inception's success, however he had been using the name for over 2 years before the Inception was even mentioned in the public domain.
He created the name by mixing up the words Inception and Exceptional to create iNCEPTIONAL, the creation of something exceptional.
It wasn't until he tried to register his name with the trademark office that he got a challenge from Warner Brothers who had put in their application after his. He battled them for over a year with them trying to bully him into removing his name from all material but he proved that he had used the name way before they had and that he had indeed registered it before they had.
The worst thing about it all though, was he offered a deal with them but they weren't interested and thought they could outsmart him. So after a year he won his fight against them with no concessions and his name iNCEPTIONAL is now legally registered with the Trademark office. What's even better is the newspapers wanted to support him by highlighting the unscrupulous nature of these big companies and how they use money and size to ruin peoples lives or ideas.
You can see info on it here: http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-e...ying-warner-bros-over-business-name-1-2590283
He's now free to get on with making his game SaveSanti without fear of WB hounding him which was pathetic.
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I really hope they have to pay the company a substantial amount for all the grief they will have put the little company through trying to fight off and prove their case to the courts.
I remember many years ago people hated Bill Gates for being an ****** to smaller companies, I feel Apple is acting similar in many senses and using their size and money to bully smaller businesses. Businesses that people have probably worked their as**s off to establish only to have to deal with some unjust legal case.
My brother had to go through something similar recently with Warner Bros who were trying to sue him for using the name iNCEPTIONAL.
Their claim was that he was piggybacking off the film Inception's success, however he had been using the name for over 2 years before the Inception was even mentioned in the public domain.
He created the name by mixing up the words Inception and Exceptional to create iNCEPTIONAL, the creation of something exceptional.
It wasn't until he tried to register his name with the trademark office that he got a challenge from Warner Brothers who had put in their application after his. He battled them for over a year with them trying to bully him into removing his name from all material but he proved that he had used the name way before they had and that he had indeed registered it before they had.
The worst thing about it all though, was he offered a deal with them but they weren't interested and thought they could outsmart him. So after a year he won his fight against them with no concessions and his name iNCEPTIONAL is now legally registered with the Trademark office. What's even better is the newspapers wanted to support him by highlighting the unscrupulous nature of these big companies and how they use money and size to ruin peoples lives or ideas.
You can see info on it here: http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-e...ying-warner-bros-over-business-name-1-2590283
He's now free to get on with making his game SaveSanti without fear of WB hounding him which was pathetic.
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I really hope they have to pay the company a substantial amount for all the grief they will have put the little company through trying to fight off and prove their case to the courts.
I remember many years ago people hated Bill Gates for being an ****** to smaller companies, I feel Apple is acting similar in many senses and using their size and money to bully smaller businesses. Businesses that people have probably worked their as**s off to establish only to have to deal with some unjust legal case.
I was just saying how companies are leeching of Apples success by putting an "i" in front of their products.
Sorry was that not clear?
Are you implying that Apple actually competes fairly? They've started too many patent wars to count over products and names that they didn't invent because they had a slight similarity to what Apple was making. As far as actually competing, just look at the Mac Pros. They're using incredibly old hardware and charging three times as much for it as it costs to buy it on newegg. Not only that, but they're selling server components for a desktop computer. Why anyone would do that is beyond me.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg
Yeah, iPod was totally hot ****** in 2003...