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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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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.
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.
Except none of that is in Switzerland. Thanks for proving that you don’t know what you’re talking about and are making things up as justification for your hurt feelings.
I guess I am making things up, I thought this was a watchmaker.
Found Tim Apple!
Found the low effort Reddit comment