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Just call it an App Market and avoid the controversy/drama. There is also something unprofessional about their response altogether, "Steve Jobs isn't our dad!!"
by diogenescynic 15y ago
Just call it an App Market and avoid the controversy/drama. There is also something unprofessional about their response altogether, "Steve Jobs isn't our dad!!"
- bakbak 15y ago:) and/or "App Bazaar" or "App Mall" or "App Shop" or "App Plaza" etc. etc. :)
- wisty 15y agoApp Stop.
- fedd 15y agoafaik store is where you also just store things, while market or bazaar is where you sell them, not free... app store are too general words to forbid people use them
- tintin 15y agoOr just Application Store. Anyway I did a Google search on app store -apple. There are a lot of 'App Stores'. Apple will be busy sending letters. http://www.google.com/search?q=app+store+-apple http://www.google.com/search?q=app+store+-apple
- aw3c2 15y agoMake that http://www.google.com/search?q=%2B%22app+store%22+-apple http://www.google.com/search?q=%2B%22app+store%22+-apple rather. The double quotes to connect the words and the + to make Google actually giving us the result we want instead of being Mr. Smartypants.
- yalogin 15y agoCompletely agree with this. This has nothing to do with closed or open. Its a business and is trying to protect its trademark. We don't have to go into the ethics of it. Fact is everyone is calling their store App Store only after the iOS made it popular. They want to use the term "App Store" because they know that's what people will be looking/Googling for. They should just have gone with close sounding but different name.
- guelo 15y agoWatch out Google might already own App Market. With all these shitty trademarks pretty soon you'll be limited to Place Where You Can Exchange Money For Computer Applications®