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Yaggo on March 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of ...

Common words or not, nobody was using the term 'App Store' before Apple made it popular (after popularizing smartphone apps). Suddenly everyone wants to have their own App Stores (after making their own iPhone clones). Please, let Apple have its App Store and come up with something original. Cannot be so hard.

nooneelse on March 22, 2011 [–]

But plenty of people were talking about "web apps" before the iPhone. Which shows that "app" is not distinctive or unique. Nor is "store" distinctive.

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