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> Too bad Apple patented calling an address book "Address Book,"

Are you joking? I didn't think that was possible, it's too generic and I couldn't find anything on Google regarding the matter.

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In the good old days, Microsoft would have called it "Microsoft Address Book", waited a few years, then started suing people for using the term "Address Book". More recently, they'd have called it "My Address Book" and then changed it back to "Address Book" in Vista, breaking applications that expected to find "My Address Book". And the 32-bit version would be in "Program Files x86" because it's really important to segregate applications by their bitness.

Yeah, it was a joke, though maybe too close to the realm of possibility.

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