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I thought there was an Palm download store back in the late 90's, for the Palm V and such, but I can't seem to find anything about it. Am I completely mistaken?? Couldn't you download apps for the old Palms?
In which a minor freetard business celebrity fails to distinguish trademarks from patents.
I think you're being overly harsh. He quotes Apple's legal papers in which they clearly state that the concept of an app store is unprecedented and then he exposes that as inaccurate. You might think of him as a "minor freetard business celebrity" but he took the brilliance of Linux software repositories, made them easier to use and more accessible, and integrated in the ability to pay for software long before Apple…
You mean he quotes Apple's attorney's quotation of a New York Times reporter? It's not quite so clear that this is Apple's statement, and reading the quote in context doesn't give the impression that Apple is claiming to have invented the concept.
> Saying that he fails to distinguish trademarks from patents is flat out wrong...
He seems to understand the difference but ignore it. He mostly argues that the concept of an app store pre-dated Apple's trademark filing. This is a patent-type argument in a trademark discussion, hence the confusion.
The only trademark law based argument he makes is that the term "app store" was generic. But without any evidence this conclusion is worthless.
> And like the term "Windows", "App Store" is a generic computing term that was in use prior to Apple's product. Is there an example of the usage of the term "App Store" before Apple popularized it? The date search via Google hasn't turned up anything. edit: I did find this blog post from 2006: http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2006/08/debugging-windows-prese...
In other words, no company or process or device came to mind when people in the industry heard the phrase. Nobody had made an investment in it.
As part of the proof that the phrase wasn't special, I actually provided search urls for the phrase and explained how the usage in the top results was generic.
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"Freetard"? What are you twelve? A corporate troll or a Windows user? I will be so happy when this "*-tard" meme goes away, it is truly irksome.
I think Fake Steve Jobs coined the term... and it doesn't sound any worse than "fanboy" to me.
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Is that a reference to a store, as in a place that sells things, or a store as in storage? I am not familiar with the topic discussed on the page, but to me, the term "app store" is referring to app caching/storage mechanism.
I'm not sure, I suspect it refers to storage, but that was the only example of the term 'app store' that I could find prior to Apple's app store announcement.
> Apple says, "...nothing like the App Store has ever been attempted before." What Apple actually says is """As a columnist for The New York Times remarked soon after the launch of the service, "[nlothing like the App Store has ever been attempted before."""" Yes, Apple is trying to push that idea, but it is not them that said it (in that instance). Apple even notes that similar mobile phone download marketplaces exi…
> And like the term "Windows", "App Store" is a generic computing term that was in use prior to Apple's product. Is there an example of the usage of the term "App Store" before Apple popularized it? The date search via Google hasn't turned up anything. edit: I did find this blog post from 2006: http://nerddawg.blogspot.com/2006/08/debugging-windows-prese...
In which a minor freetard business celebrity fails to distinguish trademarks from patents.
He's anything but a "freetard", he built cnr in order to be able to easily ship proprietary and drm apps. Far from a freetard (whatever that means). Also I'm saddened to see people here upvoting a comment using a derogatory term (freetard) against a part of our community (free and open source software enthusiasts in that case), it's against the HN guidelines.
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I think Fake Steve Jobs coined the term... and it doesn't sound any worse than "fanboy" to me.
Really? A play on the politically-incorrect, downright offense word "retard", doesn't sound worse than "fanboy"? Wow, I guess it is all about perspective.