Apple trying to sue company for using the word pod

[peteyt]

I dunno sulake - as in Habbo - still seems pretty popular.

[GommeInc]

I dunno sulake - as in Habbo - still seems pretty popular.

Unfortunately The moment they got rid of any community aspects I left, and started hating them when they stuck their fingers up at fansites.

Back to the iPod. 'i' products have beena round far longer than Apple took them over. My dad had an 'iPhone', which was a pretty basic internet phone that probably didn't know what 3G was

[danzooo]

This is weird; they're sueing a company for using the word "pod" in their new product, but hasn't there been a brand of shoes called "pod" for years???

[Moh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pod

There are quite a lot of uses of the word 'pod' - a few which are even before the ipod.

[Richie]

I hope apple sues habbo for having pods lol.

[Emotes]

Not happy with the company,
but happy with there products.

[Misawa]

I like how people seem to just be realising that "pod" is a word countless years older than Apple's inception.

[Wig44.]

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Grew too big for their boots and treat their customers like scum of the earth. It doesn't help that the actual system itself is too big for itself - by that I mean: Too many features that don't have a use. Lack of old "proven, tried and tested" features which don't work anymore, or not as well as they used to. Traditions have died. All they want is money, which is what a company wants, yes, but at least make it fun for the consumer to hand over the money :/ It's so complex to use, I'm amazed anyone knows how to use it

Any further news on Apple showing off their lameties or is the law suit still brewing away quietly? Hopefully they lose. Pod is a word, not a bi-product from Apple. It's something so simple that for some reason pedantic companies such as Apple fail to comprehend that other companies exist and are entitled to the use of the word for their own product provided it isn't infringing on copyright - by either being called an "iPod" or being of the same physical properties and/or use. Thankfully Europe, the UK and the rest of the world have a real legal system, unlike the American legal system where you can pretty much halt creativity, provided the cash is right.

Europe, the UK and the rest of the world?
No.. In europe you don't have habeus corpus. Also, thepiratebay case comes to mind where the swedish legal system was lobbied into prosecuting. In the UK, the legal system is a complete joke.

[GommeInc]

Europe, the UK and the rest of the world?
No.. In europe you don't have habeus corpus. Also, thepiratebay case comes to mind where the swedish legal system was lobbied into prosecuting. In the UK, the legal system is a complete joke.

One thing doesn't make a legal system better. With regards to corporate responsibility, the rest of the world has common sense. The US system lacks it, with regards to the patent and copyright system. You can patent anything, when you shouldn't need to and in some cases you really shouldn't be patenting things - multi-touch was one example. It's incredibly frustrating when a system represses technological evolution, especially when it is over some incredibly trivial like the name 'pod'. ThePirateBay was pushing the limits, though I do agree it was wrong that the Swedish government collapsed under pressure.

[LMS16]

Apple and their products suck. End of.

They will invent anything and stick a friggin 'i' infront of it... very... original..

Lew.