2011 Google Music
2013 iTunes Radio
Shameless
How about we all grow up and stop acting like silly kids? It's called competition. Look it up.
Not quite the same, if it had read:
Google Music
Apple Music
I could understand your comparison!
2011 Google Music
2013 iTunes Radio
Shameless
How about we all grow up and stop acting like silly kids? It's called competition. Look it up.
In the same way Apple was upset about Appstore!
No one is saying Google can't copy a name. The fact that they had to copy it out of countless other names they could've used, shows their shameless smug attitude.
Appstore wasn't a word before Apple. Newsstand was. Big difference.
See my post above!
who are they making this promise to? do iOS users give a s *hit for this?
And that was stupid.
Except it's the best name for it.
Seriously, stop trying to make something out of nothing.
Also, I don't remember the fanboys going nuts when Apple (very poorly, mind you) copied Google into the Maps business.
I don't see the relevance of your post to mine. I was saying it was stupid that they were upset about somebody else calling something an App Store. What does your post have to do with that?
What a filthy, horrible company Google is. I hope they don't release it on iOS, we don't need that copied crap here. Call me a fan boy, but this is just blatant.
Wow, you are Simon Cowell of product name isn't it? You single handedly know that Newsstand is somehow the best name for such product?
Google picked Newsstand not because it's the best name, but it's what Android fanboys would've wanted. Pick a name that would generate a smart aleck response from Android fans such as yourself while riling up Apple fanboys yelling "copycat", generating free PR.
Sorry the post previous to that one on page 1 with regards to singing from the same hymn sheet.
Exactly.
Wow, you are Simon Cowell of product name isn't it? You single handedly know that Newsstand is somehow the best name for such product?
Google picked Newsstand not because it's the best name, but it's what Android fanboys would've wanted. Pick a name that would generate a smart aleck response from Android fans such as yourself while riling up Apple fanboys yelling "copycat", generating free PR.
But I'm sure they'll say that it was the best name.
Just like calling it "Maps", Newsstand is likely the best name, and Apple definitely doesn't have any right to exclusivity of that name. I have no issue with it, in regards to either company's actions.
No, no, we can't say Newsstand is the best name.
I mean ... that might mean they used it for another reason that isn't to copy Apple.
I wonder though. If we can't say it's the best name, why did Apple use it?
Not quite the same, if it had read:
Google Music
Apple Music
I could understand your comparison!
Huh. Did I miss something? When did Apple open a physical newsstand?
Or did they not actually ever do that and you're trying to draw a parallel between a physical newsstand and software which would only make sense to someone who doesn't actually understand the whole trademark concept.
It's pretty simple. If software called Newsstand that delivers periodicals electronically exists, you can't create your own software that delivers periodicals electronically and also call it Newsstand.
Is that really so hard for people to understand or am I just some kind of genius? (I'd love for it to be the latter, but it's probably the former.)
Any form of Newsstand that sells publications is not subject to exclusivity or able to be trademarked by one firm. That's like Dole trademarking the term "banana".
EDIT: Barnes & Noble doesn't have the term Newsstand trademarked in the physical form, so why should Apple be allowed exclusivity in the digital form?
Generic names won't win many trademark battles.
Everyone knows what a news stand is. It's a stand that sells magazines and newspapers. They've been around since at least the late 19th century. But a news stand on a computer :jazz hands:? That's something entirely new. Something never done before.
It's common knowledge that if you take something that's been done a thousand times before and do it again on a computer :jazz hands:, it instantly becomes a stunning innovation, and you're granted exclusive rights to all terms and concepts pertaining to it.