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iCloud Communications Files Suit Against Apple Over 'iCloud' Name

Apple's Secret for 2012

First apple release web app development kit for iPhone.

iSO SDK for Web Apps

Then they release native app development kit for iPhone.

iOS SDK for Native Apps

What is their plan for 2012?
Once iCloud is fully operational, they will be releasing the web app development kit for iCloud and open it up to developers to write web applications that can be purchased in iTunes and executed in iCloud just like iCal, Address, Mail, Gallery and so forth.

They will have two types of web applications.
1. The first is client side web apps that stop after you logout of the cloud like Mail and iCal.
2. The second type will be server side web apps that run in the background even after you sign-out and they will charge you for hosting these types of applications in iCloud server farms. MONEY TO BE MADE!!!

In both cases you will have to use apple's API's that will allow you to write these applications through Xcode quickly and not follow any open source specifications for the web.

iOS SDK for iCloud
 
Yea, that's life in the SUenited States of America now. Why didn't they go after icloud.com when it wasn't affiliated with Apple? Because their opportunistic bastards. Smart ones, but still.
 
chaosconan said:
First apple release web app development kit for iPhone.

iSO SDK for Web Apps

Then they release native app development kit for iPhone.

iOS SDK for Native Apps

What is their plan for 2012?
Once iCloud is fully operational, they will be releasing the web app development kit for iCloud and open it up to developers to write web applications that can be purchased in iTunes and executed in iCloud just like iCal, Address, Mail, Gallery and so forth.

They will have two types of web applications.
1. The first is client side web apps that stop after you logout of the cloud like Mail and iCal.
2. The second type will be server side web apps that run in the background even after you sign-out and they will charge you for hosting these types of applications in iCloud server farms. MONEY TO BE MADE!!!

In both cases you will have to use apple's API's that will allow you to write these applications through Xcode quickly and not follow any open source specifications for the web.

iOS SDK for iCloud
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Continuing my idea!!!

Use XCode to create two types of iCloud applications. Client Web App and Server Web App. Once the developer finishes writing the application they then can register with iTunes Store. After Apple approves, make it available in the App Store for iCloud.

If the end user buys a server type application provide costs associated with hosting the server type application (monthly charge while the server is running, cpu, memory, and storage needs). You can make the cost of hosting variable. As the application uses more storage you can increase the monthly cost. Or have them be able to buy fix storage sizes for the server app. So, you charge them based on the application usage (CPU, Memory, and Storage)
 
To make matters somewhat worse, there's some accusation that Apple's services are nearly identical to the ones being offered by iCloud Communciations.
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Puleeze, How does VOIP have anything to do with what Apple is offering?
 
A company that boasts 25 years in the IT but who have only been on the Internet since 2005. There are no mentions of them anywhere on the Internet except on their own website, which has no info of actual, real substance on neither them nor their products or services, but only phone numbers to call. Go figure.

I hope Apple don't settle this out of court by paying or buying up, because it appears to be the exact purpose for which this company was set up.
 
I sue you, you sue me. You sue me because I farted. BLAH!

I know, I'll sue Mr. Jobs because we have the same first name. OK Mr. Jobs be prepared to be sued your pants off by STEVE Harper, buddy! :rolleyes:

Doesn't these rich companies INCLUDING APPLE have better things to do?
 
i don't understand why people use the 'i' in front their products. Apple has done it for a long time and it's profitable for them. But other companies use it and it's just cheesy. hell apple uses it and it's cheesy, but they get away with it cuz they already have that brand recognition
 
AppleScruff1 said:
Apple suing over a logo is actually funny considering they copied theirs from the Beatles.
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Copied?
beatlesapplest.jpg
apple_rainbow_logo.jpeg
 
It's about time for Apple to finally abandon the i..younameit naming of all their products. They can use something else maybe an idea would be to simply use their apple icon instead of the stupid i and so, no more suits. And the apple icon is an now extremely recognizable logo.
cloud or
icloud? which one is better?
 
jettredmont said:
It has nothing to do with the company, that is the point.

Trademark has value, that is why you defend it. If you do not defend it, even if the company infringing on it is small, then you lose the trademark. If a pulp fiction author uses "Styrofoam" to describe a polystyrene foam cup, the owners of that trademark (Dow Chemical) HAVE to send a cease and desist at the earliest knowledge of that infringement. It's a cost of business. They aren't going to get millions in damages from that author, and their lawyers won't write the C&D for free, and frankly their trademark division which scours for infringements doesn't operate for free either, but because the trademark has value, they do it.
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Bad example. Unless the pulp fiction author was using "Styrofoam" as a selling point of the book. Otherwise it falls under fair use (See trademark issues with "Captain Marvel" for example - both DC and Marvel have a character named that, but only one is allowed to have a comic book named that due to trademark laws)

0815 said:
No - they are not the legal owners of the name .... PART of their name was trademarked (in the US and other countries) by some other company. "iCloud Communications" failed to trademark their name and any parts of their name. They had 26 years to do it, but didn't.
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26 years? from what I understand (from others' digging), they've been operating under that name for only a few years.

And yeah, their website...
chaosconan said:
How come they didn't sue Xcerion when they used iCoud? Is it because Xcerion didn't apply for the trademark?
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Xcerion did apply - that's why (in part) Apple bought the TM from them.
chaosconan said:
It's not hijacking. The british company is called "Apple Records" or it's parent "Apple Corps", totally different from "Apple Inc".
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If you ever need to waste time... here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

Apple vs. Apple Corp has had a long invovled history, and not just (if it even really involved) their logos.

chaosconan said:
Thats fine. Have all the girls wear short tops that say "we love you steve"
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Shouldn't they wear jeans and black turtlenecks, with glasses?

AidenShaw said:
Just look at Apple's old logo (this being Pride Month), and think about why Apple doesn't have female booth babes.
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That's horribly sexist.
Sardonick007 said:
Yea, that's life in the SUenited States of America now. Why didn't they go after icloud.com when it wasn't affiliated with Apple? Because their opportunistic bastards. Smart ones, but still.
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Smart ones? No, smart ones would of kept up on the use of "iCloud" and objected to it's registration in the US by another company.
 
chaosconan said:
....
What is their plan for 2012?
Once iCloud is fully operational, they will be releasing the web app development kit for iCloud and open it up to developers to write web applications that can be purchased in iTunes and executed in iCloud just like iCal, Address, Mail, Gallery and so forth.
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In Windows Weekly a dev said that there are API-hooks for developers, maybe not from the start but that is indeed the next step Apple is planning.
 
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