Comments on: Jobs’ Personal, Terse Reply to Developer

By: Tim Hoane

Tim Hoane — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:25:44 +0000

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By: Dan G

Dan G — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:26:08 +0000

For those of you with any memory of Apple and trademarks, I give you the following:

“Change the iPhone’s name. It’s someone else’s trademark. Not that big of a deal.”

:-)

By: Chirag

Chirag — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:19:47 +0000

Perfect reply!

By: Bosch's Poodle

Bosch's Poodle — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:32:47 +0000

iPod is trademarked. Apple may not have noticed the problem before, but so what? It’s trademarked. The app’s name has to be changed. Jobs’s email was correct. Not that big of a deal and the developer was frankly a little naive if he thought he was going to talk Apple into doing him a favor and open the door to a billion other apps that wish to use trademarked Apple product names.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:20:06 +0000

Wrong. No douche.

Jobs has given them a lot of publicity by replying at all – they would clearly ( and he would know they would) have the right to disperse his terse reply to the Mac blogpshere, and I bet iRip is selling like hotcakes, and is immediately rebranded. I never heard of iPodRip.

So good work all round.

By: ArrowSmith

ArrowSmith — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:53:38 +0000

You sound like a bitter hateful MSFTie.

By: Rob Oakes

Rob Oakes — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:47:35 +0000

What is there to admire here? Who cares if Steve “spoke his mind”. Unlike most people, Steve Jobs *can* speak his mind. He’s a multibillionaire and one of the most powerful people on the planet. Moreover, people fall all over themselves to defend everything he does.

The sad thing is that he doesn’t apparently have anything interesting to say. His response isn’t some maverick speaking truth to “the man”. Steve Jobs *is* “the man”!

What a douche.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:20:39 +0000

If you don’t defend your trademark at every offense, future offenders can establish that there was a precedent of trademark abuse and that they should not be held responsible for damages. It reminds me of the old MacOS 9 Simpsons icons that Fox put an end to. Its not that the offender is intending harm, its that they are demonstrating that the trademark has not been defended. I’m not a lawyer, but I know one well.

Change your apps name… it *really* isn’t that big of a deal. Look at all of the free press you got!

By: Rose

Rose — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:36:23 +0000

Is his email address publicly available? Maybe I should email him instead of using apple.com/feedback all the time.

By: KsbjA

KsbjA — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:33:00 +0000

He didn’t mind using it in an in-a-hurry mail from his iPhone.