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Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its apple logo
(www.androidauthority.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Leave it to "Android Authority" to throw a shit fit over a nothing story. Apple lost this application in 2017, and will almost certainly lose this appeal filed in April. Yes, it's silly, but this article makes it sound like Apple is committing some sort of unspeakable crime, which it isn't.
Calm down, everyone.
Important not from that article:
If you think trademarking of common terms is a bad thing at all, apple seems to be the worst among big tech firms.
P.S. this "Android Authority" article put apple in the correct light in my opinion after reading it, and I use a lot of Apple products.
this whole argument is preposterous on its face to blame apple for anything when the problem is the laws which allow it. where's the outrage for the swiss apple company with their trademarked apple logo? nowhere.
you hate apple, and that's the source of the outrage and why you blame them rather than the courts and legislatures for their crappy IP laws.
Found Tim Apple!
Found the low effort Reddit comment
By this logic, if there's a law somewhere that unintentionally allows them to crush orphans, they aren't malicious to do so.
Apple and other corporations lobby for this kind of crappy IP law, so they can sue people.
Apple expanded into this market recently and are pretending to be the incumbent apple themed brand in that space in the whole world.
That's not logic, that's a logical fallacy:
False equivalence
or in this case, comparing a copyright claim to mass child murder... also...
prove that Apple lobbied the Swiss government for this law or for a favorable outcome. I'm pretty confident that you can't, and that you're making up this claim because you can't make an argument without fabricating claims
Apple products have been available for purchase in Switzerland for decades.
i don't think you know what the word "incumbent" means, but you not liking apple or the fact that they're prolific or popular is not tantamount to a crime. it's pretty entitled to claim that your personal opinion should have any bearing on the legality of another person's or company's actions.
Apple lobbies for laws that benefit them all the time. Note that this is a general statement, and not about their activity in Switzerland, just like my previous statement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-uighur/
https://readsludge.com/2023/01/23/apple-spent-record-amount-on-lobbying-as-it-fought-antitrust-legislation/
https://mobilesyrup.com/2022/03/16/apple-google-lobby-group-backs-weak-us-privacy-laws/
https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/clntSmmry?clientOrgCorpNumber=363634&sMdKy=1627941425600
Apple watches have not been available for decades.
I'm trying to convey that Apple is an exploitative company. If this offends you, that's weird, is your laptop the lynchpin in your personality?
I'm sorry for triggering you I'll try to be more sensitive of your needs.
Dude fuck off with that shit. Have an intelligent conversation or get the hell out of here.
The article tries to push the narrative that Apple is going after small family farms too, I doubt Apple even knows the farm exists. Not to mention under Swiss and basically every other trademark law they aren't even allowed to trademark apples in general, it only grants its owner exclusive rights within a specific class of goods or services.
The article is total ragebait.
Except if it's trying, then it is trying to commit a crime. If they lost, they lost. But, they're back to try and steal it again.
The crime that these corporations are committing is robbing the public of it's own iconography, or trying to anyway.
hahahahahaha, hilarious.
first of all, this isn't a crime. second, nothing has happened yet-- and, even if the Swiss government rules in favor of Apple, they would be the ones to blame for allowing it. All Apple did was ask. Finally, that other company's logo does not belong to the public-- it belongs to that other company. Where's your outrage towards them?
It's fine that you disagree, but can you at least try to not be condescending.
Honestly, reading this person's replies is repulsive. What a total jerk. Imagine suffering through a social event like a dinner party with someone like that. Condescending is an understatement.
this isn't some opinion over which there is a "disagreement". it's a matter of fact, and what was said was false. when someone makes a statement so ridiculously false, I cannot help but to laugh. Lies do not deserve respect.
what I find curious is that you would criticize me for calling out the falsehood rather than the person making it.
I did not criticize you for calling something out. I criticized you going after the person by being condescending, it's bad form in a discussion. Similar to pointing out spelling mistakes.