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This is not a good argument. To me, protecting a name like "App Store" would be as silly as protecting the word "Computer" before commonplace in society. Can yo
by tomlin 15y ago
This is not a good argument. To me, protecting a name like "App Store" would be as silly as protecting the word "Computer" before commonplace in society. Can you imagine the ads for such a company? "Don't be fooled by those other microcomputer systems! We're the real Computer^tm^!"
And yes, there are examples of this today already, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
- pyre 15y agoComputer was a generic term even before computer devices. "Computer" was used to refer to people that performed computations. If you paid someone to perform busy-work computations all day, then they were a 'computer.' See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History_of_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History_of_computing