{"id":588,"date":"2006-09-26T07:56:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T11:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=588"},"modified":"2006-09-26T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T12:00:03","slug":"apple-takes-the-community-out-of-podcast-tm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"PodCast TM<\/sup> fans beware: Steve Jobs is an asshat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crap. No sooner do I get an iPod when Apple decides to demonstrate what a bunch of ‘tards they really are.<\/p>\n

Well folks, if you’re not Apple, you apparently cannot use the term “PodCast.” Or “MyPodder,” or pretty much anything commercial that has the word “pod” in it and may or may not refer to iPods. Why? because Apple has applied with the US Patent and Trademark Office to trademark the term “pod.” And, they are dishing out<\/a> the cease and desist letters<\/a> to all kinds of businesses that are (for now) part of the iPod ecosystem. The latest victim is Podcast Ready<\/a>, which offers a third-party Podcast aggregator of sorts that works with the iPod and several other audio players. You can view the letter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apple seems to have a history of schizophrenia directed against third party vendors. Remember the Mac clones<\/a>? Back in the day Apple sued, then embraced, then drove off the market a dozen or so companies dedicated to licensing MacOS and building compatible hardware. No doubt Apple enjoys being popular only when it suits them, and when products become too mainstream, it seems his Steveness<\/a> feels he has to alienate everyone until his company is thrown back into cult obscurity. Sadly, iPods are riding a peak, and third party vendors may now be “getting Steved” to “correct” this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crap. No sooner do I get an iPod when Apple decides to demonstrate what a bunch of ‘tards they really are. Well folks, if you’re not Apple, you apparently cannot use the term “PodCast.” Or “MyPodder,” or pretty much anything commercial that has the word “pod” in it and may or may not refer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}