iPad cutting board chopped down by Apple

@Tom: I think the issue was that Kaplan was selling them as "iPad" cutting boards. If he was selling cutting boards that just happened to look like iPads, then I'd be with him on this. But that's not what he's doing, or did with his stencils and sketchbooks. If he were selling a cutting board shaped like Stewie Griffin and calling it the "Stewie Cutting Board," would we call the (whoever owns Family Guy this week) lawyers evil because they forbid him from selling the boards?

Although, I should qualify that argument with the admission that I wouldn't be suprised if Apple tried to do that to someone who was sellling something that just happened to look like an iproduct. You know, 'cause of likeness and all that.

Um. Are Kaplan's "creative" ideas like his iPhone sketchbook and stencils really that creative when someone came up with the look before him? Or maybe they're creative, they're just not uniquely creative. I get it now.

I can't really fault him for wanting to sell an iPad cutting book or stencils or whatever since I don't think Apple is supplying that demand... but I think Apple can totally fault him for it. SINCE THEY CAME UP WITH IT. Everybody knows that igadgets are not just about their functionality, they're about the appearance as well; an appearance this guy is trying to cash in on. If he's so creative, let him use all his other super creative ideas to make money. Same goes for the egg dish people. It's not like they were selling "cell phone" cutting boards, or "computer" egg dishes, they were selling Apple related stuff. But... like I wrote, though I can't fault them, Apple certainly can.

Sorry. Wrote that before I read the previous comment. Wasn't being plagiaristic on purpose.

"Hi, Apple tech support? I got this iPad, but there's a hole where the home button should be and the screen is stuck on the wood grain background."

Do you think Apple was afraid of too many phone calls like that?

I wonder if the wood came from apple trees?


I can see where Apple is coming from though. I could see my mother calling me up and asking why her iPad screen seems to be stuck on the wood grain iBooks background, only for me to show up and inform her that she's trying to check her email on a cutting board.

Lawyer really? Dude your talking about lawyers. You KNOW who goes first in any revolution. Ahun. That right and now you know why.

Apple is pathetic at times. Do these people ever take a step back from what they're doing?

This is why I love apple products, but at the same time hate apple. They have got to have something better to do with their time.

Those cutting boards also duplicate functionality. Who needs them when you can use your iPad as a cutting board and check your Email or watch some Netflix at the same time.

That's the kind of attitude Sony (SCEA) is trying to emulate. it doesn't seem to be working for them .