Apple don't like green apple

[Elysium]

Umm, the Woolworths brand is goneburger along with Foodtown. Storm in a tea cup.

Move along Steve Jobs non-diseased replacement, nothing to see here.

I mean Woolworths Aussie, as in they own Dick Smith.

[Skunk]

Umm, the Woolworths brand is goneburger along with Foodtown. Storm in a tea cup.

It's Woolworths Oz and Countdown NZ's new logo.

Apple take legal action first and throw their weight into it. Apple got royally screwed by Microsoft in the mid 80's. They let a bit of code be used then tried to stop it. Couldn't be done as they had let it go to start with...

Steve Jobs/Apple will never let that happen again.

[James Deuce]

It's Woolworths Oz and Countdown NZ's new logo.

Apple take legal action first and throw their weight into it. Apple got royally screwed by Microsoft in the mid 80's. They let a bit of code be used then tried to stop it. Couldn't be done as they had let it go to start with...

Steve Jobs/Apple will never let that happen again.

Don't forget the bit about Apple not paying Microsoft for IP either. Apple screwed themselves over that. Gates' MO was widely known by then. Buy software, integrate it into a suite, then develop the suite.

Apple lost my respect when the went after Apple Records and their back catalogue. The Record company was around a long time before Apple Computers. Steve Jobs is no saint. Bill Gates business practices may well be manipulative and underhanded at first glance, but what he's doing with the money he's made more than makes up for it.

[Skunk]

Apple lost my respect when the went after Apple Records and their back catalogue.

I don't know about going after their back catalogue... They had an agreement with Apple Records about being able to use the name Apple and long as they didn't get into the music business. They then got sued by Apple Records for adding sound to their computers. Hence the sound called 'Sosumi' so the story goes...
Then there came the iPod... Round 2.

Where's some info on suing for the back catalogue? I thought it was part of the settlement.

[James Deuce]

I don't know about going after their back catalogue... They had an agreement with Apple Records about being able to use the name Apple and long as they didn't get into the music business. They then got sued by Apple Records for adding sound to their computers. Hence the sound called 'Sosumi' so the story goes...
Then there came the iPod... Round 2.

Where's some info on suing for the back catalogue? I thought it was part of the settlement.

Apple Computers began a legal process in 2003 to prevent Apple Records ever releasing anything again as part of releasing iTunes which was supposed to be Apple branded. They essentially got given the rights to release Apple Music's catalogue for free. A snitty respose to repeated law suits over Apple Computers getting into the Music Distribution Business from Apple Records.

It put Neil Aspinall's plans to remaster the Beatles on hold until this year. Under the terms of repeated agreements with Apple Records iTunes is a very clear breach. Apple have since won the the "rights" to anything Apple trademarked and lease Apple Corps name back to them. Since Neil Aspinall retired and got replaced with a typical jellyfish-spined record company exec the Beatles remastered will be going in iTunes.

Apple Computers suck. Their product is great, but they aren't a hip Indie computer company. They've gone from reasonable expectations of profit to over-weening corporate greed monster.

[Elysium]

Apple Computers suck. Their product is great, but they aren't a hip Indie computer company. They've gone from reasonable expectations of profit to over-weening corporate greed monster.

Yep. They were good once, now its all just a brand name.....under Microsofts ownership of course.

[nosebleed]

Yep. They were good once, now its all just a brand name.....under Microsofts ownership of course.

Sorry, too many WTF's to take this seriously.

[Skunk]

Yep. They were good once, now its all just a brand name.....under Microsofts ownership of course.

Microsoft have a FEW NON-VOTING SHARES. They 'own' SFA of Apple and have no say in it's affairs.

[Elysium]

Microsoft have a FEW NON-VOTING SHARES. They 'own' SFA of Apple and have no say in it's affairs.

Lol I hear differantly from old Apple fans! "...Oh no! not the same since Microsoft bought into Apple..." and all sorts of whinging.
To a hard out Apple fan, anything with the word "Microsoft" is bad to them.

Point remains Apple now only sell on their brand name, no mater the fact their latest products having heating, exploding and price issues.