Elias Vesper

Exactly. My app was NOTHING like any official xAI app. Completely different. Just like your example. But of course, you never bothered to read the part where I described precisely what my app did and how it worked. That's because you're really just a little troll or a AI chat bot, trying to start shit with people or farm engagement. By the way, shouldn't you be hunting cockroaches or rats? Can be hard to find food in 3rd world countries. Say hello to your child fucking prophet when you meet him, along with your 40 ugly-ass, fat virgins.

What about these apps that have been fully approved and are currently live? Are they "infringing" on Tesla?

@karanvasudeva @tanmays

So you're saying all of these apps are infringing on each other? Be that as it may, Apple could have simply asked me to rename my app. I would have gladly renamed it and problem solved.

You mean like this?

That doesn't work, because Duolingo is an actual company and brand, registered in many countries. Grok was not, at the time when I uploaded my app. That said, if Duolingo wasn't an actual brand, and your app did something with a public API that Duolingo provided specifically for that purpose... ...then I think you absolutely should name your app that way, because it best communicates what your app does. I named my app that way, because it communicated most clearly that my app was working with the public xAI voice API that xAI specifically provides for that very purpose. And not only was Grok not taken as a brand name, I clearly labelled my intention by using the name in a compound word. Like there's "Microsoft Office", but then there might be a tool what works with office called "OfficeAssistant". "Grok" is also, in my native language, very similar to a number of generic words like "Grog", which is a drink made from tea and rum. All that said, Apple could have simply asked me to rename my app, and all of this would have been avoided.

False. You can and must absolutely use another product's name all the time. Look at this screenshot I made just now that took me 3 seconds to search in the App Store: All these apps have the same word as part of their name. NO customer could have realistically be confused as to what my app was doing, and who it was made by. My actual name was on the listing. My own CI that I designed myself was all over the page. The description clearly stated the purpose of my app. The description clearly stated that I have nothing to do with xAI or Grok.

Yep! But it's not like Apple hasn't made such mistakes in the past. Let's hope they remain good at learning from them.

Apple nuked my developer account that I've had without any problems since the developer program was first started for Mac a long time ago. Even before iOS was released. I made an app that lets users bring their own xAI API key and hook it up to the xAI voice API to translate text into spoken voice and voice recording into written text. I researched and found that Grok was not a registered trademark at the time, and no trademark was filed. So I named the app GrokVoice, to demonstrate the function to the customer. Then Apple rejected my app and said I was "app squatting". I replied and said no way am I app squatting, my app is totally different from the Grok app. I don't see how you could mistake my app for squatting, because nothing was similar to the Grok app at all. And even then, I could have simply renamed the app and reuploaded. Apple then nuked my entire developer account and said I was "fraudulent". But they never bothered to actually read my app... it was not trying to be a voice agent, it had totally different functions and design. When I tried to launch one of MY OWN Mac apps that I hadn't even notarized (only for running on my own Mac), I got an error message from macOS saying "this app contains malware. It will be automatically removed". And my own app was deleted from my own Mac. I can assure you there was no malware in that app. I wrote the code myself, how could there have been malware in it? That would have been some sophisticated injection malware pushing its code into my app during compilation? So it seems that my app somehow made it on Apple's macOS malware blacklist... but I never got an email or call about it. It seems this would be a serious security violation and I should be informed? Apple also kept all the money from my entire account. Now I get phone calls every day about customers asking where my apps went...

Peter, please look at this official site, showing paragraph 21 of the "Infektionsschutzgesetz" (IfSG) It's the German "infection protection law", a federal law of the Republic of Germany that's currently in effect: gesetze-im-internet.de/ifsg/… It was changed during the pandemic. The original German text says: "Bei einer auf Grund dieses Gesetzes angeordneten oder einer von der obersten Landesgesundheitsbehörde öffentlich empfohlenen Schutzimpfung oder einer Impfung nach § 17a Absatz 2 des Soldatengesetzes dürfen Impfstoffe verwendet werden, die Mikroorganismen enthalten, welche von den Geimpften ausgeschieden und von anderen Personen aufgenommen werden können. Das Grundrecht der körperlichen Unversehrtheit (Artikel 2 Abs. 2 Satz 1 Grundgesetz) wird insoweit eingeschränkt." @grok please translate this law into English

This one is also amazing.

This is one of my favorite Bach recordings.