What is your position on the Amazon v. Apple app store suit?

I think that companies should focus on making quality products, rather than worrying about what other companies are making.

I think that so many companies use the term app store that amazon should be able to use it.

It seems a little to generic for just one company to own the term.

Unfortunately, because Apple has a habit of inventing Products, and product categories, they might not have a case. Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge Mac head, but because a lot of apple's products are the first of their kind, the public has a habit of associating the name of the apple product with the knock offs created by others. For instance, when the iPod came out, people were calling mp3 players iPods. The same thing can be said for the slinky. When a product name is associated to greatly with a product category, the company runs the risk of losing the rights to the name. I believe that may be the case with the term "app store."

If Amazon was calling it's app store the "Apple App Store" then they would have a case. An app store is too generic a term. It would mean Apple would have had to patent the term app, which stands for applications (a generic term already). Otherwise, it's just a store which provides apps.

I think Amazon should just call it "The online store that sells things that Apple sells, but we had to change the original name because they don't like competition"