Filed under: Apple Corporate, iPod Family
Thought Out settles with Apple, agrees to change name of iPed
Let this be a lesson to you. Just because your product is intended for use with an iPod, you don't get to call it something that looks like you meant to call it iPod, but the printer screwed up on your packaging so you just went with what they printed.A company named Thought Out didn't really think it out when they named their iPod pedestal product the iPed. Apple legal was having a slow day in early June, so they issued a cease and desist letter stating that the iPed name could confuse consumers and weaken Apple’s brand strength. Kinda like Apple Computer calling their operating system Tiger, which surely weakens the brand strength and confuses Tiger Direct customers looking for cheap beige PC cases and CPU coolers.
After a month or so of thinking it over, Thought Out decided that duking it out with Apple wasn't really worth it, so they issued a statement today saying they'd reached an agreement with Apple and have renamed their iPod stand. The iPod stand formerly known as the iPed will now simply be known as "Ped."
Gripping drama, isn't it?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David said 10:43PM on 7-26-2005
And who puts their iPod in a weird stand like that anyway?
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fra said 11:04PM on 7-26-2005
Apple's CEO has a picture floating around the internet of him giving the finger to the IBM logo.
Many people can do the same to the Apple logo today.
Who every buys and iPod stand rather than an iPod shouldn't have an iPod, their to stupid.
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 11:04PM on 7-26-2005
Ped? Oh come on people... Pez? Pedophile? That's a neat little stand but that's the best they could think of? oy.
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Wheels said 11:56PM on 7-26-2005
If the Chevy IROC is reintroduced into the market, will Apple sue General Motors because they'll think that people will confuse the car with the music player? puleeeese!
C'mon, guys, nobody likes a bully.
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buthidae said 12:23AM on 7-27-2005
iPod Ped! Say that 20 times very quickly!
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H2ORANGE said 1:05PM on 7-30-2005
In all seriousness, this truly is rediculous. Does Steve plan on going down the ultra long list of vendors threatening to file lawsuits? I submit that products such as the "iPed" and even Vaja's "iVod Mini" have had a significant impact on Apple's dominating the market...
Can anyone recall a better "join the bandwagon" campaign than that for Apple's iPod?
Look out Vaja! You're on deck...
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