November 18, 2011

PCWorld: Apple Sues Amazon Over "App Store" Name


It didn't take long for Apple, which seems to be suing anything that moves lately, to drag Amazon's economy tablet, the Kindle Fire, into a lawsuit.

No, Apple isn't trying to get Amazon to stop selling the tablet, as it's doing with slates made by Samsung, but it's contending that changes made to Amazon's App Store to better market the Fire are confusing the public.

That's been a general complaint by Apple ever since Amazon launched an online store for Android apps and decided to put "Appstore" in the store title. Apple believes it owns the words "App Store" and no one else should be using it to sell apps on the Internet. So it filed a lawsuit in March to block Amazon from calling its online outlet the "Amazon Appstore for Android." ...

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