Apple Trademarks 'Graphulator' and 'Bonjour'

[MacRumors]

Apple Trademarks 'Graphulator' and 'Bonjour'

A simple search for current trademarks by Apple Computer at The US Patent and Trademark office reveals a new trademark for "computer hardware; computer software" under the mark "Graphulator".

The trademark was filed on February 3rd 2005 by Apple Computer.

Apple has also trademarked 'Bonjour' in late January which is reportedly to be used to rename Apple's current Rendezvous technology due to litigation.

While Apple's trademarks have traditionally preceded new products, Apple does also hold trademarks for several names which have never been used. (Gigawire, iWrite and others)

 

[dloomer]

Why the hangup on French names? "Bonjour" sounds horrible.

 

[ruud]

OpenTalk?

I was under the impression it was going to be renamed OpenTalk?

 

[Littleodie914]

"Bonjour" sounds horrible.

Sure does... C'mon Apple, you can come up with something better than that!

 

[displaced]

Why the hangup on French names? "Bonjour" sounds horrible.

'Rendezvous' always felt a bit cheeky to me. A bit 'nugde-nudge, wink-wink', 'quick knee-trembler in the store room', if you catch my drift.

'Bonjour' ... errr, doesn't really.

I certainly don't think a 'Bonjour' menu on my Safari bookmark bar would be all that great...

 

[Diatribe]

This may very well be the new graphing calculator. And Bonjour has got to be the worst name they could've chosen...

 

[TenderBranson]

Graphulatorr?

3rd component to Iwork?

 

[ravenvii]

Maybe they plan to hold "Gigawire" until they can manage to suck 1 Gb through a USB/Firewire-derivative.

My opinion: Rendevzous > Bonjour.

And Graphulator = obviously new graph calculator.

 

[dotnina]

3rd component to Iwork?

Probably the graphing calculator that will be a new feature in Tiger.

 

[Loge]

This may very well be the new graphing calculator. And Bonjour has got to be the worst name they could've chosen...

Well, apart from Graphulator, that is

 

[Diatribe]

Well, apart from Graphulator, that is

Yeah, you're right. That's pretty bad too.

 

[PlaceofDis]

Graphulator, that sounds cheesy to me, just like Bonjour, but who knows what will happen, wonder why they went with Pages instead of iWrite though, and i bet once a gig can be moved though a firewire type cable gigawire will become a product.

will be interesting to see what these come out as, if anything

 

[AmigoMac]

Graphu.. hahaha! awful!!

Bon ... ???

Freedom fries Steve? (J/K)

 

[backspinner]

No kidding, some time ago I wrote an inhouse program that is called graphulator. It's a user front-end to a drawing library.

 

[Chimera]

Bonjour..ugh I don't like that if you're going to use a foreign language make it one that we don't know the translation of or one that isn't used much, i can't see hp saying 'the 5510n is Bonjour compatible' somehow oh well.

Graphulator sounds ok, i bet there will be a pre-installed dashboard widget in Tiger that also has some reduced features of this app, if not i'm sure someone will make it.

 

[virividox]

bonjour ick

 

[autrefois]

Is "Liaison" taken? That'd be better than "Bonjour."

 

[Zigster]

I'm sure marketing will get rid of the French names before they release the product.

 

[fpnc]

Bonjour is a little weak, but Graphulator is absolutely horrible (sounds like something an eight-year-old would think of). I can't see using a name like that except as some type of joke or perhaps as a playful name for a toy-like piece of software/hardware.

 

[grabberslasher]

FWIW all references to Rendezvous in Tiger have already been changed to "Bonjour" in the current seeds. Look like we're stuck with it

 

[ebally]

Is "Liaison" taken? That's be better than "Bonjour."

I actually like "Liaison" a lot... It's a lot better than Bonjour! Quick, patent it and sell it to Apple!

 

[LaMerVipere]

Bonjour?

Doesn't quote roll of the tongue does it? (at least not when said in an american accent)

 

[takao]

while i have absolutly no feelings about "Bonjour" because it's simply to generic (and i think rendezvous is simply better)

"Graphulator" on the other side sounds like a transformer robot or something like that ... very cheesy ....

(anybody seen how Apple.de translated tigers Dashboard feature after the expo first ? "Schwebeplatte"..."hoovering plate" ...i nearly fell of the chair laughing... luckily the changed it to "Dashboard" on the german site as well)

ph34r teh gr4phoo|4tar

 

[mainstreetmark]

Anybody read the story of Graphing Calculator? Presumably written by two Apple guys who didn't really even work at Apple. They sneaked in every day and wrote it on a PPC prototype.

Can't find the link.

 

[Brize]

Can't find the link.

Here you go:

http://www.pacifict.com/Story/