Apple Files for 'Places' Trademark Ahead of MobileMe Revamp?

[BlueRevolution]

If anything, they'll eliminate Mobile and just make it Me, since they already own the www.me.com domain.

Better trademark that.

Obviously it sucked, but come on, how could a music social network ever work?

Ask last.fm.

 

[kiljoy616]

Apple was using Places long before Facebook.

I was using Places before Apple even thought of it. Come one its a common word what's next "Hello" is that the future of the world.

I also now would like to tell everyone that "Goodbye" is also copyrighted and you should not use it in any content without express permission by me.

 

[dime21]

Trademarking a single generic commonly used word is idiotic. I really hope the trademark office denies Apple's application. And I hope they also cancel Facebook's trademark on "places" for the same reason. The Patent and Trademark office is a model of government incompetence.

 

[dime21]

Stupid crap, people who volunteer their location to the public domain, or even their "friends", are morons.

Bravo to you for being aware of this. The sad thing is, everyone who uses geo-tagging cameras and social media is clueless and oblivious to the serious security implications of it all. take a photo inside your home, post it on facebook or somewhere else, and bam - now anyone and everyone knows exactly where you live, down to the street address.

this happened to the myth busters guy. he posted a photo on his blog, of his car, with a caption "leaving for work". Now everyone knows the street address where he lives, what car he drives, and what time he leaves for work in the morning.

see how it works? post enough photos, and now everyone knows your daily routine, what time you come and go, where you live, where you work, where your friends live, etc. scary stuff.

 

[deannnnn]

Yeah, who writes these stories? Obviously not anyone who uses Macs too heavily. Places was introduced by Apple in iPhoto '09.

Yeah, as a way to track where your photos were taken, not as a social networking location check-in tool. It's about how the word is used.

 

[ChromeAce]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

Stupid crap, people who volunteer their location to the public domain, or even their "friends", are morons.

Bravo to you for being aware of this. The sad thing is, everyone who uses geo-tagging cameras and social media is clueless and oblivious to the serious security implications of it all. take a photo inside your home, post it on facebook or somewhere else, and bam - now anyone and everyone knows exactly where you live, down to the street address.

this happened to the myth busters guy. he posted a photo on his blog, of his car, with a caption "leaving for work". Now everyone knows the street address where he lives, what car he drives, and what time he leaves for work in the morning.

see how it works? post enough photos, and now everyone knows your daily routine, what time you come and go, where you live, where you work, where your friends live, etc. scary stuff.

No one cares where you live or work dude. You live in a culture of fear in which you think everyone around you wants to rape you. Use a credit card or Google search? Those records are bought and sold routinely.

 

[ChromeAce]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8C148 Safari/6533.18.5)

Yeah, who writes these stories? Obviously not anyone who uses Macs too heavily. Places was introduced by Apple in iPhoto '09.

Yeah, as a way to track where your photos were taken, not as a social networking location check-in tool. It's about how the word is used.

It's close enough that there's room for only one to stay alive once the trademark is awarded. They're both names of software features related to location.