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Firm Launches 'IPHONE' Brand of Android Phones, Touts Trademark Ownership in Brazil
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That doesn't get to the heart of the matter. They don't have to call it an IPHONE just because they CAN. They are clearly trying to get Apple's attention.
Apple can just hire mercenaries to rough the company up. This is what makes South America unique. Cartels and mercenaries, oh my!
Yes, I think someone like my grandma could be easily confused by two products with the exact same name that are both cell phones.
Interesting. Quite a surprising headline. Had apple never pursued a trademark at all in Brazil? Would think that given this firm's recent bankruptcy issues Apple would have sensed weakness and worked the issue with them to get the rights.
Agreed. It's clearly NOT and iPhone in hardware look or UI... they could have called it anything else.
I'd be surprised if someone confused this for a real Apple branded iPhone. But maybe things are different in Brazil
This is what you get when an American company tries to bring jobs to Brazil's tortured economy. I'd tell the Brazilian government to handle it or I'd pull out every job I was planning on bringing there and dump them in whatever country is closest that isn't full of cheating pricks. Hell, I'd pull the iPhone itself from the country. In the rest of the world we get the iPhone, but in Brazil you get the cheesy piece of crap IPHONE. Congrats, the world thinks you are morons.
That's pretty funny. They form a company because they have the IPHONE trademark. They come up with a computer rendering of a phone and pretend like they will sell it. Apple gives them 60 Million for the name. They never had to actually build a phone. They retire.
Wow! Because multiple manufacturers make Android
Agreed. It's not like ANYONE would mistake that ugly husk for an iPhone made by Apple . . . EVER.
I think what they are doing a cheap shot, but hey, everyone's gotta make money some how. When Apple fleeces it's users for a warranty or a memory upgrade it's okay though right folks?
Beat me to it.
Because Apple never copied ANYTHING from ANYONE ever?
We really need to remind people what iOS 1.0 looked like before Apple pulled many a feature from:
Android
Palm OS
Symbian
If this is true, fine. The question is, did they manufacture/release any phones from 2000 on and did they also release any new phones during the reorganization period?
And if they were such a big brand that could compete with other big name brands, why wait until now to release a phone with the iPhone name? Perhaps it is what all people here are saying: the company reorganized to decrease debt and remain afloat, they finally released the iPhone they were hoping for when they originally got the trademark back in 2000, AND it's a money grab hoping for a payout to pay off other debt.
After all, there is no problem with them using the iPhone name when they own the trademark for it, but their timing is questionable and suspicious; especially when Apple is ramping up their presence in Brazil.
You have to deserve names now and not simply own them before other companies do?