On: Apple legal is going after Open Source startup with their App Store trademark

[tzs]

There were online stores that sold applications before Apple did so. What's wrong with calling them whatever we used to call them, before Apple started calling theirs "App Store"?

[Symmetry → tzs]

But "app" has been a genericized term since at the 1980s (See "Killer App"). And I'm not seeing how if "Foozit" is a generic term how you can copyright "Foozit Store" if the term is in fact describing a store which sells Foozits.

[seats → tzs]

What did we used to call them?

[lucian1900 → seats]

App stores.