Apple Goes After Open Source Startup For Daring To Use The Term ‘App Store’

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 24, 2011

“Those of you up on your Apple history may know that the company
once had a sense of humor. It once had a project that went by the
code name ‘Sagan,’ and when astronomer Carl Sagan got angry and
sent a cease-and-desist, Apple changed the project name to
‘Butt-Head Astronomer’ or ‘BHA’ (eventually leading to a defamation
lawsuit that failed). So with Apple now being the insane company
sending out cease-and-desist letters over something they shouldn’t
care about, perhaps it’s time to help people rename the ‘app
store.'”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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