| ▲ | vessenes 5 hours ago |
| Sort of buried the lede here -- Apple uses the Inkwell name and has a trademark. This is just not going to get approved. Or, to quote Jobs talking to the iPodRip developer "Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal." |
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| ▲ | vegadw 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| used. Apple used. It's legally a dead trademark, so Apple is claiming ownership of something they've already abandoned, but enforcing that nobody else can reclaim it, despite being a good name. That's not right, they don't just get to name squat. |
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| ▲ | armada651 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | What's legal doesn't matter, it's their store, if they want to claim they own the word Pear too they can do that. I think holding that kind of power over devices people own is problematic, but I seem to be in the minority here. | | |
| ▲ | jasonjayr 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Amusingly, a bunch of series of teen shows used to use "Pear PC" to get around the trademark issue on all their on screen technology... | |
| ▲ | eikenberry 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | +1 .. the problem isn't that Apple is denying their app, the problem is the developer decided to submit it to the Apple store. |
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| ▲ | thaumasiotes 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Fun fact: this same process is how Vietnam got its name. Their earlier proposal of Nam Viet had fallen out of use, but still couldn't get approval. |
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| ▲ | etothet 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Perhaps you’re right. Apple's App Store review can be a rough process. Then again, a search of “Inkwell” in the App Store shows plenty of apps that are named “Inkwell”, many of then writing-related. |
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| ▲ | vessenes 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh I didn't say they'd be consistent. But once it's raised, it's going to be really tough. | | |
| ▲ | Barbing 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Agreed. Vanishingly few enforcers have ever said "wait, we let other people do it? Ohhhh go ahead!" Much more extreme example, I read a court case where the cops were really annoyed the perp told them they should've been enforcing $muchWorseCrime elsewhere. Judge wasn't a fan either. |
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| ▲ | m463 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| maybe apple should have changed ipod to avoid confusing it with a pre-existing music device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_6_POD |
