Michal Marek Google launched its own app yesterday Newsstand for Android, which combines already existing applications Currents a Magazines and thus creates a new environment in which the user can buy, subscribe and download all possible electronic publications for free. Google's novelty has the same name as a similar Apple application that was integrated into iOS in 2011. As well as Newsstand (Kiosk) from Apple and solutions from Google collect all newspapers, magazines and other electronic printed matter in one place and also allow their purchase.
However, Google has also put some added value into its new app. The solution from Google can do something more besides managing and buying newspapers and magazines. Just like the original app Currents, and Google Newsstand can model services as Flipboard or Zite create an information channel compiled from various Internet sources.
Discover more news and magazines that interest you on your Android tablet or smartphone. Enjoy the news with embedded audio and video material. From sports to business, cooking, entertainment, fashion and more - now you get the best paid and free newspapers and amazing full HD magazines. Plus, everything in one place.
Currently it is Newsstand from Google available exclusively for the Android platform. However, the server company TechCrunch revealed that she wants to update her app early next year Currents for iOS and also create your new one from it Newsstand, which will directly compete with the original solution from Apple on iOS.
In the past, Apple has not been very forgiving of products bearing the same name as its own. For example, the big legal dispute with Amazon over the Appstore brand is well known. However, both Amazon and Microsoft argued at the time that "app store" was a generic term for an application store, to which Apple should not have any ownership rights. It is likely that the dispute would turn out the same in the case of a dispute over the trademark Newsstand, which is again a generic term for a newspaper stand or kiosk.
If Apple named its app Newsstand, then Google Newsstand is plagiarism
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