So apparently, Apple won... Microsoft, forgot their own brands... well. This is a trivial matter at any point.
If Microsoft would have won, it would mean squat to average Joe consumer as everyone now a days understands the App Store as iPhone OS dependency, not Windows Mobile.
They strong armed competition in the 90's Duh.
I'm not young....Wow - could you be more wrong? No one said Apps until Apple and the iPhone. You must be young. Very young. Many people for years have used the term Apps. The first PALM had "apps". And the term predates the palm.
But I don't expect someone who is so vehemently against Microsoft to post anything else based on the rest of your post.
I don't think Microsoft (or Nokia, or anyone else) would object if Apple wanted to trademark "Apple App Store" or iTunes App Store
You are so wrong. "Windows" is just as generic as "App Store".
On one hand you have every OS in the world using a GUI system that has "Windows" in it. On the other you have "Apps Store", but not every OS in the world calls their software "Apps". Other names would be Program or Software.
What's more generic.... "Windows" or "App Store"?
That's right "Windows".![]()
Wow most of you are way off point. Being generic doesn't mean it's a common word. That's stupid. You don't have to create words like "Pixar" to have a trademark. What the hell is "Apple" then? The genericness claim is saying that Apple is trying to trademark the term "App Store" for describing…an app store. Windows isn't a name for a window company; it's software.
Wow most of you are way off point. Being generic doesn't mean it's a common word. That's stupid. You don't have to create words like "Pixar" to have a trademark. What the hell is "Apple" then? The genericness claim is saying that Apple is trying to trademark the term "App Store" for describing an app store. Windows isn't a name for a window company; it's software.
I think Windows will lose this..
Apple has done enough to develop and present the App Store to hold mark rights to it...
Wrong. Before Microsoft stole the term, people call those square gui elements you see on a computer screen "windows."
Seems Microsoft is trying to steal someone else's term again.
Here, Here! Nuff said!
Done and Done.![]()
windows is an operating system
Microsoft is the company that filed the complaint (as well as some others i believe)
Windows is a product, App Store is a service. Apples and Oranges (no pun intended).
is that the only explanation you have? no other facts?
would you like to drive only 1 type of car and get it services at 1 place for the rest of your life?
some people like choice, im pretty sure you understand this.
App Store is generic. App Store is the title we use to describe the outlets we browse and purchase applications. It's not specific to Apple's application store.
Windows is an operating system, not a window. I'm not fond of Microsoft, but credit is rightfully placed where its due.
I'm not young....
Palm is dead.
Palm may have used "Apps", but they were too lame to coin the term "Apps". Where Apple has... so it's theres. No one (meaning general public) used the term Apps until Apple's iPhone and that's a fact.
Too bad so sad Palm couldn't pull it off.
To prevent other people writing in ignorance about what Microsoft does "own" and does not - please look at this link.... which incidentally appears in the post above mine and on other threads where people continue to pull facts out of their hindquarters
http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualProperty/Trademarks/EN-US.aspx
WOW. Ok - just rewrite history to make yourself feel better.
Palm being bought and the company's name being put to rest in 2011 has nothing to do with the discussion. Way to straw man the discussion.
And millions of people used the phrase "apps" long before Apple had the app store. Fact. For DECADES before the iPhone. Also fact.
You are so wrong. "Windows" is just as generic as "App Store".
On one hand you have every OS in the world using a GUI system that has "Windows" in it. On the other you have "Apps Store", but not every OS in the world calls their software "Apps". Other names would be Program or Software.
What's more generic.... "Windows" or "App Store"?
That's right "Windows".![]()
Interesting. I see they have "Xbox Ring of Light" do they have "Xbox Ring of Death" too?
Windows Media - rather a generic term too, considering what it's for. But hey, let's not get too hung up on them.
IMHO i think apple deserves to lose that lawsuit. trademarking something which is simply a generic descriptionis quite an annoyance and very much a thing of 90ties