Det. Bart Lasiter Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/20/jobs_email/ Dear Mr. Jobs, My name is John Devor and I’m the co-owner of a small Mac shareware company named The Little App Factory and a long-term Apple customer and shareholder. I doubt you’re aware but we recently received a letter from a law firm working on Apple’s behalf instructing us that we had violated several of Apple’s trademarks in our application iPodRip and asking us to cease using the name and Apple trademarks in our icons. (...) In fact, we are quite aware that Apple support and store staff have recommended our software on numerous occasions as far back as 2004 so we have felt that we were doing something right! (...) With this in mind, we are in desperate need of some assistance and we beseech you to help us to protect our product and our shareware company, both of which we have put thousands upon thousands of hours of work into. Our company goal is to create Mac software of the highest quality with the best user experience possible. I myself dropped out of school recently to pursue a path in the Mac software industry, and you yourself have been a consistent inspiration for me. If there is anything at all you can do with regards to this matter, we would be most grateful. Best, John Devor Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal. Steve Sent from my iPhone the "sent from my iphone" bit makes it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Reiper Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 See, it's the stuff like this that proves Steve Jobs no longer has a heart, he really thinks he doesn't need it anymore, the Iheart seemed superior, but ultimately is a cold evil being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nedak Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 HTC Touch Pro... That's all I have to say to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astor Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 the "sent from my iphone" bit makes it It's hard to disagree with Jobs' sentiment. It does seem like excessive whining about a simple name change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Avlectus Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 This is an outrage!!! ZOMG why can't he just let people use the iWhatever titles?! This fails!!!!!!!! Arrrrgh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Yeah, I've invented this awesome nacho cheesy chip and called it Doritos. Now all the sudden I'm getting flak from frito lay company telling me I'm infringing on their trademarks. What's this about. After all, I did put work into this tasty snack AND dropped out of school to pursue a career in snackable goodness, and now out of the blue, I find out that huge corporations don't care about my personal plight or self sacrifice and they're telling me to cease and desist. Well, I'm going to send a carefully worded letter to some rich, faceless corporate exec, then I'll sit back and watch the wheels turn in my favor. naive much. Change the name already. Apple owns it. You can't have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 I dunno, I can see where the dude is coming from. He's been using that name for years, and probably already has a brand reputation among his customers. Surely there is other independent software that "infringe" in the same way as this product that haven't been asked to change their name. Plus Apple has been recommending the software to customers. Also Steve Jobs is a dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 I dunno, I can see where the dude is coming from. He's been using that name for years, and probably already has a brand reputation among his customers. Surely there is other independent software that "infringe" in the same way as this product that haven't been asked to change their name. Plus Apple has been recommending the software to customers. Also Steve Jobs is a dick. the part where apple support says to use their app is what gets me, since its a continuation of apple's policy of packaging the work of others (their entire dev toolchain, for instance) in a shiny, translucent package and profiting off of it. plus the part where apple has suddenly decided that the icons included with os x for developers to use in their apps can't be used in apps anymore because they are apple trademarks. it's the equivalent of microsoft saying developers can't load the folder icons included with windows to use in their apps. this business with the icons has happened with other companies as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Avlectus Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Also Steve Jobs is a dick. And just what highly successful person isn't on occasion? And if it isn't the person, it's the wife who is little princess. Search your feelings, you *know* it to be true! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 ...the Iheart seemed superior... Why? It's just like a normal heart; only it costs 2-3 times as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrrtoken Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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