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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by bradleyland on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @03:50PM (#2684848)
I'm really confused as to what anyone is supposed to call the online store where one sells applications? It's as if someone trademarked "Department Store" and all of the sudden, Macy's, Sears, JC Penny, Dillards, etc couldn't use the term to refer to their stores any more. That's insane.
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by tzs on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @03:54PM (#2684869)
There were online stores that sold applications before Apple did so. What's wrong with calling them whatever we used to call them, before Apple started calling theirs "App Store"?
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by Symmetry on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @03:59PM (#2684905)
But "app" has been a genericized term since at the 1980s (See "Killer App"). And I'm not seeing how if "Foozit" is a generic term how you can copyright "Foozit Store" if the term is in fact describing a store which sells Foozits.
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by seats on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @04:35PM (#2685125)
What did we used to call them?
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by lucian1900 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @08:02AM (#2705036)
App stores.
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by zheng on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @03:57PM (#2684895)
The company in the article is now calling it the "App Shop"

EDIT: See cpg's response, it's actually cycling.

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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by hristov on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @03:55PM (#2684884)
Application Store?
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by cheald on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @08:19PM (#2686052)
If I were fabulously rich, I'd go with "Appl Store", just to kick the hornet's nest a bit more.
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Re:Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their... by gleb on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @08:31PM (#2686074)
That's hilarious. Unfortunately trademarks are phonetic, so this can't fly.
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