Lets say you just finished hacking and cracking your myTouch 3G through the just unveiled rooting process. With the myTouch lagging behind some other in the looks department, your first quest is to retheme it. You’d heard about a Palm Pre skin, which decks Android out with Pre-esque visuals from top to bottom. Partly out of spite and partly out of genuine curiosity, you set out to find it.
Sorry Charlie, it’s too late.
Earlier this week, the developer of the Palm Pre skin, L3wish, received a letter from the Sunnyvale mothership. “You should probably take this stuff down, or we’ll stop pretending you’re not infringing all sorts of copyrights,” it read – except spread out across 714 words.
Citing the potential for “widespread consumer confusion” and the usage of Palm’s trademarks (the skin was outright called “Palm Pre theme”), Palm demanded that all materials be taken down. The developer has since pulled the download, and any instances of it we knew of have disappeared. You can probably find them in a few minutes with Google – but then again, so can Palm’s lawyers.
[Via EngadgetMobile]
So Palm has a problem with a theme made by joe nobody which is JUST A THEME, but has no problems making their device ID show up as an iPod to use Apple’s proprietary software?
fuck yea its bullshit palm is trying to pull big badguy apple shit I luv my pre and well the developer should change the naem, if it confuses people “widespread consumer confusion” then if he names it android re skin or android pra skin or sumthing dumb like that
I agree with Dubbs! What hypocrisy on the part of Palm! I mean, not only do they pooch hundreds of ex-Apple employees to design and help build the Pre, as well as violate Apple’s multi-touch patents, but they also violate the USB license by pretending to be an iPod, just in order to use Apple’s own software to steal customers away from the iPhone to the Pre!
Apple did nothing for almost a year, and then, and only then, did they take legal action against Psystar for illegally violating Apple’s OS X license. Since the Pre has only been on sale for a few month, I hope that Apple will eventually do to Palm what it is about to do to Psystar.