I assume that you all already know that Apple has registered as a trademark the name App Store around which it has built the largest virtual application store in the world. Although it has a store built around a name, Apple did not own the App Store brand from the very beginning, it being registered by the company SalesForce who ended up giving it to Steve Jobs as a gift. When Jobs announced the launch of the App Store, the president of SalesForce gave as a gift the Apple company the certificate of registration as a trademark of the name App Store and all thanks to the help provided by Steve Jobs many years after the CEO of SalesForce.
He has probably given me more help and more advice than just about anybody. And when I get in trouble and I kinda get lost in my own vision, I've been fortunate to be able to go and see him and he's been willing to show me the future a couple of times.
In 2003, Steve Jobs offered help to the CEO of SalesForce to solve some problems, the two remained good friends and when the time came, the CEO felt compelled to help Jobs by giving him the registration certificate as a gift of the App Store brand. Now Apple is being sued, with Amazon or Microsoft for blocking the use of the term App Store by the respective companies, but in the end everything will probably end in favor of the company from Cupertino even with that trademark.
