Indeed they do, companies like Microsoft also have the right to dispute it. When you say 'App Store' and people ask you which one, you know that it has become a generic term.
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Microsoft's Windows 8 to Include an App Store Too
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Indeed they do, companies like Microsoft also have the right to dispute it. When you say 'App Store' and people ask you which one, you know that it has become a generic term.
Terrible analogy.
It is like Ford trying to name a car a Ford Auto. Trademarking a generic shortened version of the name to describe the item.
I meant they have a right to attempt to trademark it. In theory, anyone can try whatever they want, and Apple seems to get a load of press everytime they try to legally protect their work. Apple does have a strong case to trademark the term, IMO, however, I am not in the profession of issuing trademarks, copyrights or patents, so, it is just my opinion.
In regards to the term being used as a common term, no one started using it with any regularity until Apple did, regardless of any current trademarks.
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Regardless, it was not a common term until Apple started using it. Other than Sage Networks, back in 1998, who used it with regularity before Apple? I know you didn't. Please don't site Wikipedia...that is not a reliable source of information.
I am not talking about tablets, I am talking about Windows 8.
Everyone knows that the iPad was the first good tablet.
No we are not, YOU are talking about the very concrete subject of Microsoft's history with Tablets.
People like you give Apple users a bad name.
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I used the term often with my Palm Pilot. That's one example that LONG predates Apple's usage.
This is too much.
I feel like it's just impossible to get through to some people.
Most of the people commenting haven't even read the thread.
The same people that probably run into a room and butt into a conversation without knowing what its about.
Mentally ill lunatics.
Damn Tea Party....Making it cool for "folks" to be ignorant and still feel like they are "entitled" to an opinion.
I feel like it's just impossible to get through to some people.
Most of the people commenting haven't even read the thread.
The same people that probably run into a room and butt into a conversation without knowing what its about.
Mentally ill lunatics.
Damn Tea Party....Making it cool for "folks" to be ignorant and still feel like they are "entitled" to an opinion.
Didn't Microsoft have something called Windows Marketplace which came out in Vista and sold digital software? Fair enough it was just a web page but the concept is more or less the same. I just see this as an evolution of that.
As for the naming if the courts say the term App Store can't be copyrighted then Microsoft have every right to use it.
As for the naming if the courts say the term App Store can't be copyrighted then Microsoft have every right to use it.
Oh please... Like any other source is reliable.
Wikipedia is pretty reliable IMO, get out of your closet.
Your statement has nothing to do with mine. I really don't understand why you are quoting me. Maybe you meant to quote someone else?
But you did accidentally accomplish the feat of making me realize anything I mention here will be seen as trolling, or will help exacerbate it, and I do not wish to be a part of such shenanigans.
Carry on good people.
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Trade Marks are not a claim of invention.
Check this Windows 8 preview, it demonstrates pretty well where Windows is going - and it isn't so dramatic as that screenshot makes one think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDry3QUllYk
It's actually pretty conservative and in some ways the best of both worlds. In other words, if one doesn't like the "touch" interface, one never needs to see it.
That's some revisionist history there. Apple had about $2 billion in cash when MS made a $150 million investment.
Check this Windows 8 preview, it demonstrates pretty well where Windows is going - and it isn't so dramatic as that screenshot makes one think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDry3QUllYk
It's actually pretty conservative and in some ways the best of both worlds. In other words, if one doesn't like the "touch" interface, one never needs to see it.
I actually like the new GUI, just from the looks of it. Maybe using it won't be as easy, though. I have an Acer at home that is a touch screen, so, maybe the touch interface might come in handy. I'm curious as to what the non-touch sensitive part will look like...
You idiots that think "fanboys" are mad because Microsoft is copying something Apple invented are wrong. Apple didn't invent app stores. What I think Apple "fanboys" are mad about...at least this fanboy is...is that once again PC fanboys make fun of an Apple product and then support it when Microsoft starts copying it. iPhone is stupid without a real keyboard...now most android phones look like an iPhone. iPad is just a big iPhone and is useless...then we get tablets from every PC maker. App Store is stupid and 3rd party developers won't support it...now we have an app store coming in Windows.
Apple lost such a strong case when their CEO used the word in a descriptive and generic fashion during their earning's call :
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-steve-jobs-referred-to-app-stores-2011-4
This has already been discussed at length, maybe you should go read the threads about this topic, it is quite irrelevant to this thread.
Speaking of educating... Microsoft is contesting the grant of trademark.... but right now Everyone knows Apple has a trademark on the term "app store" right?
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Lion has already implemented iOS features. People are kinda complaining about it now (trackpad direction).
I didn't start the topic...just commented on it...in any event, I'm way past it. I was just adding my .02
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I happen to like the gesture features on the track pad. Makes navigating my MBP very easy.
lol, Windows 8
Yeah.
I did find it extremely annoying that Microsoft announced Windows 8 a couple of weeks after Windows 7 went on sale.
Why would anyone buy software when the company announces a new one at the same time?
But, going off point, I think Microsoft is testing the waters by releasing plans for Windows 8, that way they can gauge feedback, because right now, Windows 8 is just vaporware, right? It will probably be years and years before there is a Windows 8.