Apple and Amazon End Lawsuit Over the Term 'App Store' 79
An anonymous reader writes "After months of back and forth legal filings, Amazon and Apple have finally ended their ongoing dispute centering on Amazon's use of the term 'App Store.' As part of the agreement, Apple agreed to drop the suit and Amazon promised not to counter-sue Apple in the future. Apple spokeswoman Kristin Huguet said that 'we no longer see a need to pursue our case. With more than 900,000 apps and 50 billion downloads, customers know where they can purchase their favorite apps.' Apple initially sued Amazon back in March of 2011 alleging that the online retailer's use of the phrase 'App Store' in its mobile software developer program constituted trademark infringement. Apple expressed that allowing Amazon to continue to use the phrase 'App Store' would ultimately confuse consumers who associate the phrase with Apple's app store for iOS apps."
Re:Sure that's the reason (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Mental Retardation (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh, wait, sorry - I take it back.
Wouldn't want to accidentally insult people who actually suffer from mental retardation by comparing them to CEO types...
Re:Sure that's the reason (Score:3, Insightful)
They never wanted to win, just delay.
Re:Sure that's the reason (Score:3, Insightful)
I am sure that is the reason they dropped it and not because they were throwing dollars at lawyers for a case they couldn't possibly win. They found a way to back out gracefully.
Or could it be that over the intervening time, Apple figured out that their customers are not as stupid as Apple thought they were, and none of them were found trying to download Amazon apps to their walled-garden phones?
Apple expressed that allowing Amazon to continue to use the phrase 'App Store' would ultimately confuse consumers
Re:Sure that's the reason (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple are fucking stupid. They go around suing every other large company around alienating themselves and making a lot of enemies when they could be forming valuable partnerships instead.
That makes far too much sense. And to top it off, where such a philosophy would have been normal in the early days of the personal computer industry, cooperation between businesses to where everyone can succeed does not align with the modern douchebag corporate philosophy, where it is not enough for a company to be a success, but all competitors must ultimately fail. And if that is not possible, scorch the land.
Re:Hang on... (Score:4, Insightful)