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Steve Jobs is definitely a man of few words.

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When The Little App Factory received a legal letter from Apple requesting that they change the name of their popular Mac app, "iPodRip", CEO John Devor decided to pen a heartfelt email to Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself. iPodRip, in case you're unaware, is a nifty little Mac app that enables users to copy songs from their iPhone or iPod back to their Mac. The app has been around since 2003 and is must-have if you experience any kind of data loss on your Mac. To date, it has been downloaded over 5 million times.

Apple naturally sent the letter to The Little App Factory because the name "iPodRip" infringes on Apple's "iPod" trademark. Now you might think that Apple is being unnecessarily nitpicky here, but in the sometimes ambiguous world of trademark law, if you don't actively protect your trademarks, it becomes a lot easier for companies to use your trademarks without fear of legal recourse. iPodRip may be a quality program, but not every app that uses the "iPod" name necessarily is.

In any event, onto the letter which reads in part:

Dear Mr. Jobs,

My name is John Devor and I’m the co-owner of a small Mac shareware company named The Little App Factory and a long-term Apple customer and shareholder. I doubt you’re aware but we recently received a letter from a law firm working on Apple’s behalf instructing us that we had violated several of Apple’s trademarks in our application iPodRip and asking us to cease using the name and Apple trademarks in our icon
…

It is quite obvious that we mean Apple no harm with the use of the name iPodRip, or of the inclusion of trademarked items in our icons, and in fact I believe that we have been providing an excellent secondary service to Apple customers that has potentially caused you many repeat clients. In fact, we are quite aware that Apple support and store staff have recommended our software on numerous occasions as far back as 2004 so we have felt that we were doing something right!

With this in mind, we are in desperate need of some assistance and we beseech you to help us to protect our product and our shareware company, both of which we have put thousands upon thousands of hours of work into. Our company goal is to create Mac software of the highest quality with the best user experience possible. I myself dropped out of school recently to pursue a path in the Mac software industry, and you yourself have been a consistent inspiration for me.
If there is anything at all you can do with regards to this matter, we would be most grateful.

Best,

John Devor


Jobs, true to form, subsequently responded with a curt email stating:

Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal.

Steve

Sent from my iPhone


Well we can certainly deduce one thing from Jobs' response - he was born to Tweet!
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He faithfully believed his mentor that he never met actually cared about him in the least. A company who's entire advertisement budget is put towards attacking their competition rather than showing any reason to actually use their product.
 
Malak said:
He faithfully believed his mentor that he never met actually cared about him in the least. A company who's entire advertisement budget is put towards attacking their competition rather than showing any reason to actually use their product.
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Attacking? you mean showing reasons why not to use their competition? Kinda like verizon ?
 
alfa147x said:
Attacking? you mean showing reasons why not to use their competition? Kinda like verizon ?
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It's not a political fight. Just show your product and give reasons why anyone should use it. They are desperate because they offer the same thing their competition does, but for 4x the price.
 
Malak said:
It's not a political fight. Just show your product and give reasons why anyone should use it. They are desperate because they offer the same thing their competition does, but for 4x the price.
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They also advertise iPods & iPhones you know? And none of those commercials show them bashing any competitors.
 
Malak said:
It's not a political fight. Just show your product and give reasons why anyone should use it. They are desperate because they offer the same thing their competition does, but for 4x the price.
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huh?
"same thing their competition does" ignorance ...
wow someone forgot to let me know since when windows is Unix certified, or when windows can run any Pro apps (Final Cut Studio, and Aperture) oh and wait 4x the price? link please... show me another computer that runs OS X for the cost Apple sells it as... have you forgotten apple is primarily a hardware company?
 
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QueBert said:
They also advertise iPods & iPhones you know? And none of those commercials show them bashing any competitors.
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Funny thing they don't show their desperation when they are at the top of their game. Their competition, despite having far less market share, still doesn't revert to attacking Apple at all. Zune is better than itunes, everybody knows this.
 
Most execs are like that. They give orders, they don't try to make elaborate communication unless it's a speech or press release.
 
spidey07 said:
Most execs are like that. They give orders, they don't try to make elaborate communication unless it's a speech or press release.
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I don't understand why the Shareware company thought he was the appropriate person to contact. Why should their product get any special service?
 
Jobs has a point, but you would think that he would appreciate software that supports his company's products and would at least write a more thoughtful response.
 
SunSamurai said:
Stop trolling, fatty.
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Malak said:
Funny thing they don't show their desperation when they are at the top of their game. Their competition, despite having far less market share, still doesn't revert to attacking Apple at all. Zune is better than itunes, everybody knows this.
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Zune sucks, the Zune Dock is 80 bucks.... 80 bucks for a dock? And people complain how much Apple charges for shit. The Zune software is also a POS that will change all your mp3 tags as it sees fit without warning you first. Talk to anyone who went thru what I did with that software and nobody will say Zune is better than anything. I'm still fixing my tags and cover art it randomly fucked up. 8,000+ fucked up ID3 tags for wanting to try out a music player. THANKS A LOT MICROSOFT!
 
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