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Re:Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush Wi... by chilldream on Friday January 31, 2014 @08:03AM (#7156440)
> Both of those companies made prudent decisions about their brand trademarks by not treading on anyone else.

Actually Apple ran into some trouble with, say, there already being software called IOS before any of the iThings existed. They've been to court over it a few times.

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Re:Game Developers Are Trolling the Makers of Candy Crush Wi... by morganherlocker on Friday January 31, 2014 @09:47AM (#7156859)
They also license the name "iPhone" from Cisco. They reference it in the first few lines of the legal section in the settings panel.
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