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oasisbobtoday at 12:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

Elaborate enough?

Funny story: I used to work for a startup which had a trademark on "Airdrop". When Apple announced that feature, it took everyone there by surprise. Ended up reaching out and selling it to them for a buck or two in favor of maintaining goodwill.


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inventor7777today at 12:52 AM

Ha, that's funny. When you say "a buck or two" do you really mean it was almost nothing or did Apple compensate you appropriately? I'm also surprised that Apple didn't catch that before if it was trademarked.

inigyoutoday at 1:15 AM

Why did you value Apple's goodwill more than a couple million dollars?