On: Amazon seeks to throw out Apple 'app store' claim

[mmuro]

It's "commonplace" after Apple started using it.

[Karunamon → mmuro]

Oh please. An app store is a generic name of a place where you buy apps. And "app" has been around long before there was such a thing as an iAnything.

There aren't really a lot of synonyms for a place where you buy things. Store and marketplace are the two obvious ones.

[mistercow → Karunamon]

>Store and marketplace are the two obvious ones.

Well, and "shop" and "mart". Still, even if we branch out to a few less obvious ones, we're looking at a few dozen possible names at most, and some of them are ridiculous like "The Software Application Emporium", and oh man hold on I have to run over to the trademark office real quick.

[cocoalovethax → Karunamon]

The term app was first used by Apple since at least the early 80's and even Mac OS X and iOS(and NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP) use".app" as the extension for applications. Steve Jobs was using the term "app" long, long before it was popular.

[jlgreco → mmuro]

"Escalator" became commonplace after Otis started using it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalator#Loss_of_trademark_rig...

[nailer → mmuro]

I'm sure Click n' Run, Handango, and other places where apps were sold for a particular platform were called 'app stores' at some point.