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VictorMortimer said:

Hopefully 2010 is far enough away that they'll be able to use the elapsed time to demonstrate that the trademark is now generic.

Lots of places and things are named apple, including a very common and popular fruit.  This is why common English words should NOT be trademarkable in the first place.  Apple should have stuck with Apple Computer if they wanted something trademarkable.

Maybe but Apple has been providing “cinema” type services for quite some time. Their logo could be seen as being too close to Apple’s logo. Apple is required to protect its patented hardware and trademarks so even if they lose they’ve done what’s necessary for its stock holders. 

I’m all for interoperability but don’t want government access to my medical records. We all know this is what the trump worthless-administration wants so they can locate anyone they want to and see what is happening to everyone in the USA. My doctors deal direction with Medicare, that’s enough. No other government agency has any right to my health records, plain and simple. 

I want the new CEO to be tough as nails not a kiss-a** who will drop to their knees when trump, the EU, UK, and all the other governments who demand Apple open up our ecosystem, want free access to Apple. I want them to fight worthless court orders, being proactive by counter suing or simply not selling to those countries. 

I have DuckDuckGo on my iPhone and iPad so what's the problem? I also don't use google for any search engine because there are alternatives. Is this only an EU issue? If so, then the EU needs to talk to browser companies instead of bothering Apple.

The sad thing is that none of these people actually do the work necessary to make a billion dollars, they simply lead lots of vastly lower paid employees who are the real people who design and build the products these people get the credit for. Sorry Tim Cook, you haven't designed an Apple product and only got your job because Steve Jobs unfortunately died. Of course even Steve wasn't the one who designed the first Apple products, he was the great(est) salesman (not snake-oil salesman) in history.