Apple App Store is considered a mark to denote its App Store and has filed a lawsuit in a California court to prevent the application store opened today by Amazon carry this name. Apple believes this is a brand name and its use by Amazon confuses consumers. " The Amazon store is called AppStore for Android.
The lawsuit arose after Amazon opened a portal for applications developers could prepare for his shop, a place he calls Amazon Store App Developer Portal. There is an unprecedented dispute. Apple and Microsoft's battle for the trademark use App Store by the company Steve Jobs. Microsoft raised in January to the authorities governing patents that Apple could not use this term because it is a generic concept that gives Apple a secondary use.
Apple contends that Microsoft itself uses generic terms to christen their products and recalls his use of "Windows" (windows), a word that has spent years identifying your operating system. Could also be considered a generic. Microsoft had argued that the very pattern of the company, Jobs has sometimes used the expression "app store" to refer to the application stores that have opened their competitors.
The decision now rests with the authority of United States patents. The existence of the App Store dates from 2008. Apple opened with the departure of their smartphones. The successful formula has resulted in a significant market for application developers and all brands have opened their own shop.
Opening an app store for Android Amazon is presented as a distinct alternative to the model established by Google, owner of the Android mobile operating system based on free software. Amazon says its store applications must pass a review similar to that Apple applies to its own. Google, in this sense, maintaining a more open policy.
No input from an exclusive store for Android applications, there are manufacturers' own phones using Android and independent portals. No supervision of the applications after the sale has led to applications that have been identified that harbor malware. Apple has always maintained that the preliminary approval of applications for its part is not done for reasons of censorship if not security.
Following the system of Apple, Amazon will charge $ 99 per year for developers to stay in the store and will reserve a 30% commission on each sale. Amazon offers instead a more organized visibility of products, an issue which has provoked a complaint from the developers to the Google Store.
For now only offers 48 titles. One of the most striking is a new version of the game Andry Birds. This store, according to some analysts, could also serve to expand the use of the Kindle digital reader beyond its original destination as a reader of books and closer to self-use of a tablet.
For its part, Microsoft does not rest on the courts. After suing Motorola for violating his own patents on the use of Android now has filed suit against Barnes and Noble for their digital reader Nook. Demand extended to other manufacturers that use Android. The lawsuit filed in a court of Washington is to promote "the investment of billions" to offer consumers great software products and services to market, argues the lawsuit.
The lawsuit arose after Amazon opened a portal for applications developers could prepare for his shop, a place he calls Amazon Store App Developer Portal. There is an unprecedented dispute. Apple and Microsoft's battle for the trademark use App Store by the company Steve Jobs. Microsoft raised in January to the authorities governing patents that Apple could not use this term because it is a generic concept that gives Apple a secondary use.
Apple contends that Microsoft itself uses generic terms to christen their products and recalls his use of "Windows" (windows), a word that has spent years identifying your operating system. Could also be considered a generic. Microsoft had argued that the very pattern of the company, Jobs has sometimes used the expression "app store" to refer to the application stores that have opened their competitors.
The decision now rests with the authority of United States patents. The existence of the App Store dates from 2008. Apple opened with the departure of their smartphones. The successful formula has resulted in a significant market for application developers and all brands have opened their own shop.
Opening an app store for Android Amazon is presented as a distinct alternative to the model established by Google, owner of the Android mobile operating system based on free software. Amazon says its store applications must pass a review similar to that Apple applies to its own. Google, in this sense, maintaining a more open policy.
No input from an exclusive store for Android applications, there are manufacturers' own phones using Android and independent portals. No supervision of the applications after the sale has led to applications that have been identified that harbor malware. Apple has always maintained that the preliminary approval of applications for its part is not done for reasons of censorship if not security.
Following the system of Apple, Amazon will charge $ 99 per year for developers to stay in the store and will reserve a 30% commission on each sale. Amazon offers instead a more organized visibility of products, an issue which has provoked a complaint from the developers to the Google Store.
For now only offers 48 titles. One of the most striking is a new version of the game Andry Birds. This store, according to some analysts, could also serve to expand the use of the Kindle digital reader beyond its original destination as a reader of books and closer to self-use of a tablet.
For its part, Microsoft does not rest on the courts. After suing Motorola for violating his own patents on the use of Android now has filed suit against Barnes and Noble for their digital reader Nook. Demand extended to other manufacturers that use Android. The lawsuit filed in a court of Washington is to promote "the investment of billions" to offer consumers great software products and services to market, argues the lawsuit.
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