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Apple and Prepear Negotiating a Settlement Over Disputed Pear Logo Trademark

Professor Rucy said:
You're not alone. The arrogance of Apple 2020/2021 vs. the Apple Computer days is so night and day I need a flashlight at noon.
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I was seriously considering buying a new MBP until I read this article. That fixed that thought. I am a small business owner trying to carve out a living here. To have a large multi billion dollar corporation sue small businesses that have NOTHING to do with their target market just because they used a EFFING fruit in their logo is BEYOND idiotic. I am actually disgusted with apple right now. All their crowing in their release events is pure sewage at this point. Leaving items out of the box to fleece their customers more and claiming it's for the environment is laughable as well.

Apple is a garbage company.
 
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Steve Adams said:
I want to like all these funny comments but I am so disgusted with this douchebaggery by apple I am not laughing. Pruned more apple out of my life today. It was great.
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Man, one thing is true: a corporation will always be a corporation. We’re living in a Brave New World where the people with the tightest sphincters reign. Everything is regulated down to the nanometer, and it still doesn’t seem to be enough for the corporate brainwashed.

My logic: I’ll be disapproved of by the social police no matter what move I make, so I may as well speak my damn mind.

Apple was never a benevolent institution, but they’ve given humans a sense of satisfaction stemming from their mutual love and appreciation for aesthetics. Aesthetics please the soul. But at the end of the day—and no one here better forget it—Apple worships money and wants power over you and me. They have velvet marketing surrounding privacy, but they’re complicit in the big corporate agenda all the same: trillionaires vs. peasants.
 
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I think here Apple goes way to far. I would have understood the situation, when they would have an apple as shape . But the explanation with the leaf is too exagerated. At least, it's a cooking app! I think they have more to do with fruits then apple ever xD.
 
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I can't wait until my new phone gets here. Keeping an eye on the tracking now. another 9 days and it will be here, and I will be fully purged of the apple crap!
 
Steve Adams said:
I can't wait until my new phone gets here. Keeping an eye on the tracking now. another 9 days and it will be here, and I will be fully purged of the apple crap!
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I switched too. My final straw was Apple lobbying Congress to not passing a bill that would ban companies from using forced labor by requiring an annual employment sourcing audit. All I have left is an Apple TV that I only use because my ID GO cable password on my Roku TV won't keep.

Sick of Apple politics and antics being shoved down our throats as a true Apple fan. There is more freedom and less disappointment outside the walled garden.
 
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Apple INC is a for profit corporation. They have one singular goal: To make as much money as fast as possible at all times without pause for as long as possible. Any and all threats to that goal, either real or perceived, today or in future, shall be crushed as quickly and completely as possible. The money you and I paid Apple INC for the temporary use of Apple INC technology is going to be used to crush this company and any other Apple INC deems a threat.

Want to make your blood run cold? Do you watch YouTube? Copy a story off a popular web site that's unrelated to anything you have sent recently. Send it to a couple people via text on your iPhone.... in a couple hours log into YouTube and see what you get for recommendations....
 
Tooldog said:
Apple INC is a for profit corporation. They have one singular goal: To make as much money as fast as possible at all times without pause for as long as possible. Any and all threats to that goal, either real or perceived, today or in future, shall be crushed as quickly and completely as possible. The money you and I paid Apple INC for the temporary use of Apple INC technology is going to be used to crush this company and any other Apple INC deems a threat.

Want to make your blood run cold? Do you watch YouTube? Copy a story off a popular web site that's unrelated to anything you have sent recently. Send it to a couple people via text on your iPhone.... in a couple hours log into YouTube and see what you get for recommendations....
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Please tell me what I would get for reccomendations...My friends and family do not like getting random texts of videos.
 
Tooldog said:
Apple INC is a for profit corporation. They have one singular goal: To make as much money as fast as possible at all times without pause for as long as possible. Any and all threats to that goal, either real or perceived, today or in future, shall be crushed as quickly and completely as possible. The money you and I paid Apple INC for the temporary use of Apple INC technology is going to be used to crush this company and any other Apple INC deems a threat.

Want to make your blood run cold? Do you watch YouTube? Copy a story off a popular web site that's unrelated to anything you have sent recently. Send it to a couple people via text on your iPhone.... in a couple hours log into YouTube and see what you get for recommendations....
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I have taken business courses in University. I understand the reason for business. But, as a small business owner, I believe in ethics, morals and doing the right thing. Unlike Apple at this point where it seems bury ANY business that has no threat to us, Just because we can. EFF apple. They are trail park trash at this point.
 
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Hodar1 said:
Seems the Beatles' Recording Company ought to sue Apple Computer, claiming prior art?
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They did. Apple got around it as they had nothing to do with music, so there shouldn't be any confusion.

I think it reared it's head again when Apple put speakers on a monitor (or an all in one).

And I'd have to assume they settled for an undisclosed amount once Apple had iTunes. Which was probably called iTunes since they didn't want to call it Apple Music (for the time being).
 
Tooldog said:
Want to make your blood run cold? Do you watch YouTube? Copy a story off a popular web site that's unrelated to anything you have sent recently. Send it to a couple people via text on your iPhone.... in a couple hours log into YouTube and see what you get for recommendations....
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No, that's NOT a problem, I want recommendations to be relevant to me.
Why would I want recommendations that aren't related to things I'm interested in?
 
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garylapointe said:
They did. Apple got around it as they had nothing to do with music, so there shouldn't be any confusion.

I think it reared it's head again when Apple put speakers on a monitor (or an all in one).

And I'd have to assume they settled for an undisclosed amount once Apple had iTunes. Which was probably called iTunes since they didn't want to call it Apple Music (for the time being).
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Wow, sounds familiar right? This proves my point again. EFF APPLE.
 
DiamondarBoss said:
Poor Pear.
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I guess some people are so blind because of all the Kool-Aid, Almost like something else that's going on lately...yeah. Sometimes its hard PROCESSING information and pulling truth and integrity from blind followings. I guess you wouldn't understand seeing as you are either, 1. replying from your mom's basement, or 2. on your break from serving crappy coffee at Starbucks. Start your own business from the ground up, see how hard it is. See how you sacrifice to build your business...then have a ******** company like Apple come and try to beat you down for A lame ass reason.

Yeah. Follow the herd lemming.
 
Steve Adams said:
Wow, sounds familiar right? This proves my point again.
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No, it doesn't. Don't forget, Apple Computer started off with just a few guys to start (probably smaller than Pear is).

I'm guessing if Apple Records hadn't gone after Apple Computer the first time around (when people said things like "it's a SMALL computer company, they're not going to confuse the two!"), they would not have done very well going after them later.

Having that Apple Computer statement saying, "we're not doing music" after they were asked to stop infringing (or whatever way it was worded) and later doing music (which I'm sure they were not thinking of in the late 1970s) probably made Apple Records first claim very valid, which means WAY more money.
 
Prepear had 7 and now has 5 employees. The big difference Gary, is that Apple music and apple computers were both apple. This is a completely different fruit, non similar logo, non competing company unless apple is deciding to get into food preperation. They are petty and childish.
 
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