It’s been merely two days since Apple lost the suit to block Amazon appstore, and now they have issued a ‘cease & desist’ letter to GetJar, a web-based marketplace that serves apps for Android, Blackberry and Nokia phones.
In the letter, Apple’s lawyers take aim at GetJar’s claim, specifically the use of the term “App Store.” Apple asserts that those two words relate to its own mobile application service, and that GetJar should not be using them to talk about its own.
In a statement provided to Mashable, GetJar’s CEO Ilja Laurs said Apple’s cease-and-desist letter was a “surprise.”
“GetJar has been in the business of offering apps to consumers since 2005, well before Apple, and helped to pioneer the model that the general public understands as an app store today,” Laurs said. “We have built a strong, global and growing business around this model, and plan to continue to use the phrase ‘app store’ to describe what we do.”