I feel for Apple (nah, who am I kidding?...), but in this case USPTO is right. Why? Because if this were granted, the next thing on the news would have been the multiple bogus lawsuits against any and every company that "dared" to use the descriptor MINI for any of their products.
Apple has already muscled a Polish (I think) grocery store that had the word Apple in their name. You know, because people can not discern between Apple and actual apples sold in a grocery store.../sarcasm