Party with the Podi
By Peter Rojas 
posted Sep 6th 2004 8:03AM
posted Sep 6th 2004 8:03AM
It should be roughly five seconds before Apple's legal team has them in shackles, but for right now THD seems to have gotten away with naming their 4GB MP3 player the "Podi". They also have a sweet new smartphone coming out called the Reot.
you gotta be kidding! rip off the name and the menu design!!
what do companies expect to achive by doing this?? that people will mistake them for an iPod???
And they are sued in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, bankrupt!!!
I think that companies actually count on the confusion factor too much (i.e. A kid tells his mother he wants an iPod, she sees this and says eather "Okay, here's the Podi" or "This must be the same thing" or even "well, this is less than the iPod, so it'll do."
Apple needs to torpedo this, if for no other reason Podi not only sounds really wrong, it's pretty lame on top of that...
I suppose the "Reot" will run Palm OS? I don't think Palmsource would have allowed them to license it.
...is why we have trademark law. Sometimes it's used unjustly, but for cryin' out loud, even the interface (so far as I can see) looks like a ripoff. The name is clearly trying to profit from confusion or knock-off buyers.
good on 'em