Legal handshake with Steve Jobs: Apple lawyers will go after “my iPhone” name
Going to expos and events are always exciting for the potential new news, but as well as that there’s the possibility that you might bump into someone in the industry who you particularly admire. There’s an old saying that you should never meet your idols since they’ll only ever disappoint you; right now that’s ringing more than a little true for me.
The idol, as I’m sure he is for many people, is Steve Jobs. Man, I’ve looked up to him for years. Hero-worship gets a bad press, but if it makes me an Apple fanboy then I guess I’m a fanboy. As you can tell from the coverage here on MYiPhone, the majority of which has been glowingly positive of Apple’s first solo cellphone attempt, we’re big believers in the device and the company ethos. So when I got to meet Steve at D5 the other day, I was like a kid on Christmas morning again (only with less egg-nog). I almost expected an Apple-flavored electric shock when we shook hands; what I didn’t expect was to get slapped with a legal threat.
Original post by Vincent Nguyen