[sorbus]

> Seeing the Fangguo logo in a super market clearly doesn't conjure up images of Apple products, but imagine an electronics store featuring products plastered with the Fangguo logo - it stands to reason that consumers might get confused and mistake one company's product for another.

I suppose that if you had never seen the Apple logo, and merely had it described to you very badly then you might confuse the two. Maybe, if it was a really bad description and you had poor eyesight. I didn't even get that Fangguo's logo was supposed to be a stylized apple until the article said so.

[culturestate]

I can _kind of_ see where they're coming from. I've been out and about and had folks look at my MacBook Pro (no case, no shell, no stickers) and ask me if it was a Mac. I can definitely see older folks seeing "a fruit" on a computer and assigning it to Apple. I guess you could even argue that they own "fruit" branding on electronics.

This is no more out of line than that time they sued Woolworth's.

[pavel_lishin]

How often do you see food company logos in electronics stores? I suppose if there's snacks by the checkout, but people mistaking that logo for Apple's and thinking that Jobs started manufacturing candy bars doesn't really pass the straight-face test.

[Hoff]

Target and Walmart are among the retailers that sell both groceries and Apple products in the same store.