No, Amazon: 'App Store' Should Remain Exclusive to Apple

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  1. News Bot iFans.com News

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  2. samw40 Well-Known Member

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    Of course it should remain Apple-exclusive. Its a marketing term, "Only on the App Store". Ever see that little logo at the end of a commercial or on an advertisement? That's Apple-exclusive and by making the term generic, it would be misleading and hurtful to Apple's and Apple's developers' marketing strategies. Amazon is only showing it's lack of originality by doing this.
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  3. Badd_Blood Well-Known Member

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    Can they call theirs Amazon App Store? If not then this is bs.
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  4. JailbreakHelp Well-Known Member

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    If they only own App Store, then can't Amazon have the Amazon App Store?
    JailbreakHelp, Sep 26, 2012
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    If no one else can use the words "app store" when naming their app stores, I think it should become generic. To be honest, I am more toward the side of it becoming generic all together.
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  6. C0C0 Well-Known Member

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    I disagree. The Amazon App Store is, wait for it... an app store! As in a store for apps, you know. How could that not be generic enough? If I open a grocery store and simply call it Grocery Store, I won't sue people who do the same...
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  7. JKJones Well-Known Member

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    It has become a generic term like Popsicle or Kleenex.
    JKJones, Sep 26, 2012
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  8. muffinza192 Active Member

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    The difference being the app store sells apps while kleenex arent kleenexes, their tissues.
    muffinza192, Sep 26, 2012
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    Difference there is anyone can sell something advertized as a "popsicle," whereas only Kleenex can sell tissues named "Kleenexes." Popsicle was made available to everyone after it became such a huge umbrella term. Time will tell if "App Store" will be the next "Popsicle." ;)
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  10. JKJones Well-Known Member

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    The app store sells applications. Yet we call them apps just as most people (at least that i know) call all tissues Kleenexes.
    Yea i think it should as it is a pretty generic term.
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