Josh Ong
After Apple's iPad disappeared from Amazon.cn earlier this week, some were quick to speculate that the move was connected to a legal battle between Apple and Proview over the iPad trademark in China.
However, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that Apple had requested Amazon China stop selling the iPad because it lacked the proper authorization to offer the device. According to the source, the Cupertino, Calif., iPad maker had been working with Amazon for weeks to have the listings taking down.
The tipster went on to clarify that the issue was separate from the escalating disagreement between Apple and Proview that came to a head earlier this week. But, it remains unclear whether the removal of iPad listings from Chinese retailer Suning that also occurred this week is related to that lawsuit.
After suing Apple for trademark infringement, Proview succeeded in convincing some mainland authorities to confiscate iPads in smaller cities throughout Beijing beginning last week.
Apple maintains that it purchased the Chinese rights to the iPad mark in a multi-country deal several years ago. “Proview refuses to honor their agreement with Apple in China,†said spokeswoman Carolyn Wu.
A previously unpublished court ruling from last July showed that the High Court of Hong Kong sided with Apple on the matter and demanded Proview transfer the trademark over to Apple.
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You'll find the iHaters, trolls, and other vermin that skewered Apple a few postings ago about Apple deserving China's "seizures" of iPads eating crow and humble pie at the diner down the street.
After suing Apple for trademark infringement, Proview succeeded in convincing some mainland authorities to confiscate iPads in smaller cities throughout Beijing beginning last week.
First of all what does smaller cities throughout Beijing even mean? Beijing is a city, not a state or province. There are no "cities throughout Beijing." Additionally the linked article mentions only one city (Shijiazhuang, in Hebei province) where iPads were confiscated, and that one is over 200 miles from Beijing. Are AI writers really that bad at both geography and math?
Shame for Amazon. Don't they make more profit selling an iPad than a Kindle Fire? hehe
First of all what does smaller cities throughout Beijing even mean? Beijing is a city, not a state or province. There are no "cities throughout Beijing."
It probably refers to the districts and counties in one of the worlds most populace cities.
Shame for Amazon. Don't they make more profit selling an iPad than a Kindle Fire? hehe
Considering they lose money on every Kindle Fire sold selling no iPads is more profitable.
You'll find the iHaters, trolls, and other vermin that skewered Apple a few postings ago about Apple deserving China's "seizures" of iPads eating crow and humble pie at the diner down the street.
Unfortunately, that won't happen. They will just move on to their next bullet point like "iPad has no flash", "Apple copied PARC's GUI", or "Android is crushing iOS".
Personally, I'm still trying to understand why Apple haters will burn the calories to come to an Apple rumors site and trash Apple. Why even register in the first place? My time is too valuable to find a message board, register, and post hate and vitriol about something I don't like. In my opinion, doing all that is a little too involved for something the trolls profess to not care about. Almost like the clergymen who rail about homosexuality, then are found out to have had paid men for sex: it's the 'they doth protest too much' syndrome.