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Apple's lawyers should've been able to swat this problem away without trouble.
https://www.applejazz.com/about.htm
"AppleJazz Records began as a way for Charlie Bertini to promote the recordings of his "AppleJazz Band".
So AppleJazz Records promotes the sale of recordings, not so much live concerts.

His registered trademark is "Apple Jazz" (with a space), not "AppleJazz" (no space). He's not even using the registered trademark. If he stuck to using AppleJazz (no space), I don't see any confusion. His application even has the disclaimer "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "JAZZ" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN." Well, what about the right to use APPLE? In my opinion, he doesn't mention APPLE, because his intent is not to obtain a trademark he wishes to use but only to interfere with Apple Inc. and obtain a lucrative settlement with the company.

It was only in 2016 that Bertini finally applied for the "Apple Jazz" trademark (which he doesn't use), a year after Apple applied for theirs.

Archive.org has old webpages from applejazz.com going back to 2004. Even then, Bertini was using AppleJazz (no space).

So the U.S. makes an exception for one corporation, not an entire country.

eriamjh said:

This product needs at least one killer app that is super fun or useful to justify its existence.   Without it, it will just be a white elephant.  

I hope Apple knows what it is doing.  

Killer apps in the VR/AR space already exist, but they've been dead in the water because of lousy hardware.

I've been mildly appalled at the lack of accuracy of ChatGPT but what took the cake was when I asked it to write a small program that uses a particular system call and it claimed to have done so but what it wrote didn't use the system call.

IMHO the (original) HomePod is too thumpy. I compare it to Sonos 5, 1, and Arc, which are balanced or natural. (However a Sonos Sub introduces unwanted thumpiness. For example, outdoor sporting events often lack wind filters and this produces whiffling of the Sub.)