Apple a day

A photo taken this week in Southampton outside the Apple computer store.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

Somewhat cheeky, not  only to steal the trademark name, but also then set up a stand outside the Apple shop. There have been numerous examples of litigation over the use of the Apple trademark, with the Beatles Apple record label, New York – the Big Apple, but maybe Apple Home Improvements will get away with it.

As a County Council, we use the prefix “hants”. From Hantsweb, Hantsfish, Hantsdirect and so on, it works fairly well as a sort of trademark to say this is a Hampshire County Council provided online service… which got me to looking for other uses of “hants” that weren’t HCC.

• Hantscounty - a place in Nova Scotia
• Hantslug - linux user group, not for lovers of slimy garden creatures
• Hantsmoths - obviously moths
• Hantsastro – Watch the Space Shuttle STS-127 Launch here 13 June 2009 
• HantsPlants - for botanists in Hampshire

I’m sure there are plently more examples, but my favourite has to be the Hants Apple.

Next blog post after 22 June.