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Its not exactly a very elaborate name.

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.

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.

It rounded down to nothing. Might have been $10 or $100 to make it real consideration.

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

We were a provider very intimately dependent on Apple's ecosystem and had no appetite whatsoever for a fight.

My... Aviato?

Infatrode, wtf is Infatrode

(I might be butchering it, course it is an Office Space reference)

He was my absolute favorite character in that show.

I think it was Initrode. I used to watch it every day haha

They intentionally butchered it I think but it still cracked me up

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