“A children’s clothes retailer that sold baby outfits based on Apple’s iconic iPod and iPhone user interfaces and icons has been forced to close after Apple demanded it cease business,” Simon Jary reports for PC Advisor.
“Website ipopmybaby.com has been selling the range of iPod and iPhone baby clothes for several years,” Jary reports. “But Apple is notoriously protective of its brand and relevant icons, and has finally sent its lawyers in to close down the ipopmybaby business.”
Jary reports, “Apple hasn’t demanded a complete cessation of business, allowing the website to sell of the remainder of its stock. The retailer is now offering 40 percent discounts on all its Apple brand-busting baby clobber ‘until supplies last or December 11th, whichever comes first.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s amazing they lasted as long as they did.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
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Seems like a good opportunity for licensing and royalties, in my opinion – a win-win opportunity that was passed up.
So, you’re privy to the profits generated by this outfit?
Please elaborate.
More likely it’s not worth Apple’s time to assign even one person to deal with stuff like this. It’s a distraction. Apple doesn’t need to license their patented and trademarked icons and UI elements to baby clothing sellers.
Well, sorry to hear this is shutting down, but it is understandable…
I do have my first boy coming in January, so I did use this opportunity to buy some at a good discount price. 🙂
Congrats!
Thanks! I am excited!
Congratulations on the upcoming birth of your iBaby!
The retailer should keep the iPod touch logo with all the icons, I like that one. EXCEPT don’t do icons, and don’t do tiles, and don’t use a vertical rectangle and don’t use black as the base color. Create your own “UI” that is not beholding to anyone, and icons that aren’t little squares and go with wild colors like neon and go gangbusters. Like I said I like the one that has the baby app icons. I occasionally use the “burp” and “nap” app myself!
Baby spit-up on product likenesses taints the brand, perhaps?
‘Apple knives the baby iPhone clothes’
I just hope that there are no actual babies wearing the clothes while they are being ‘knifed.’
knifes! not knives!
knifes is a verb meaning to cut or stab with a knife. Knives is a noun meaning more than one knife.
“ipopmybaby.com”
Isn’t ‘pop’ American for shoot/kill.