Apple to Pivotal: Take the 'pod' out of Podium

Wow.

I love you Apple, but you need to lay off the Lawyers. What, you're not innovating as much anymore, but still want to stay in the spotlight, so you come up with this crap?

As for the look and feel... you didn't win against Microsoft with that claim, why don't you stop screaming it every two seconds?

Apple, stop it.

This really Irks Me I have had it with the apple greed machine that keeps attacking company's when ever an idea that they should have come up with was done better and faster by some one else pretty soon all i's in anyones advertising will be challenged then it will be the eye's in your own head as they sound the same and the average human can not discern between the apple ithingy and the actual eye at which point apple will ask that the human population be blinded to prevent confusion. Give it a rest apple you are making us all sick.

Heck they'll be suing the people who is making the peapod (electric car) next
< http://www.peapodmobility.com/ > that's closer to iPod than Podium for sure.

The Apple legal team must be bored of late or something of the sort this is so ridiculous.

Well, look at the Roadtools' Podium Coolpad. It's a laptop stand, and has been around for years. I don't think Apple ever had a problem with it,but I also don't think it looks like it was ripped off from an Apple design.

The foot industry is in real trouble. I won't be able to see a "Pod"iatrist anymore. Maybe the foot came before the iPod, but the iPod is far more important. Even those poor little amoeba will have to rename their "pseudopods" to fakefoot or falsefoot and be done with it.

This is a good example of part of my stance on Apple: I like their products themselves, but hate their marketing, their fanbase, and their bullshit.

For a company that rips stuff off all the time (see Xerox, Unix, Christian Marclay, Eminem, the Beatles, etc.) they have a lot of balls. You'd think that a company who makes it their official policy to say "Screw it" if they want something that's trademarked yet cannot come to an agreement beforehand (See Iphone) would at least chill the hell out.

To those of you defending them because they're obligated to pursue their trademarks, get real. The product is called Podium. The day that everyone in the world is getting sued for naming their product something that is 1. applicable to the design (it looks like a podium, it's called Podium. Are people really this stupid?) and 2. Using an english word that existed for LONG before their company ever did which has precisely 3 consecutive characters to do with their dumbass trademark.

Seriously. Sometimes I hate this company.

That's funny because it's not proper to say iTouch either does that mean I'm wrong if iTouch myself?

Apple, podium is pronounced po-dium, not pod-ium.

Just because a word contains the string "pod" doesn't mean they're pronounced together. English is funny like that. If only it was California's native language (or even the U.S.A's for that matter)...

Apple... pshhh... whaaaattt thhhhheee heck! they cant go n own every single *^&@#$ word that has "pod" in it... its freakin ridonkulous!