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It makes sense for a "newspaper" type app as well. It's not often I hear someone say "I'm going to get the newspaper" but far more often I hear "I'm going to get the paper".
A letter from Paper (FiftyThree) to Paper (Facebook)
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#14I feel for FiftyThree but the ship of anyone caring of FB's missteps has long sailed.
FB being the first $1 trillion company seems inevitable. FB is the borg of all borgs.
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>> "Facebook's app is a newsreader that kind of somehow has to do with paper maybe?"
I'm guessing the name is a reference to 'newspaper'. Most people I know just refer to the newspaper as 'the paper'.
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#16Can both not exist? I don't see how there could be overlap or confusion from potential customers.
"I always use Paper on my ipad for all my pictures, you should check it out" Which app would you download from the appstore ?
It just seems a bit melodramatic. Should Google Mail have been named Google Post, just because Yahoo Mail was first? They aren't operating in the same space; furthermore, Facebook didn't name it just "Paper" in the App Store, they've named it "Paper - stories from Facebook".
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#17I think Facebook should change Paper's name mainly because Paper is a horrible name for this product, which is actually "Facebook without all the crap you never use". The fact that "Paper by FiftyThree" is a name already in use is another factor, why fight this battle when the name isn't even very good?
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#18My first thought when I read the Facebook Paper announcement was along these lines.
This is a big social faux paus on Facebook's part - at least among the developer community - but I really don't see either company changing their Paper's name. I imagine it'll go similarly to Google's Go name collision[1].
How should the little guy in these situations be legally protected? On one hand it's clear that "candy" shouldn't be trademarked, but "paper" is just as generic a term. Maybe the lesson here is not to name your product generic nouns and avoid the trouble all together.
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#19It's a matter of respect. Paper (FiftyThree) is a well known brand and app, so basically the Facebook developers were 100% aware that they were utilizing someone's name (at least they should have been), and therefore they went ahead to publish their new app with complete disregard for what already existed.