What about GTA lol
Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
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Re: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
#22Incredibly insensitive product naming. I’m guessing the software authors don’t have children and don’t have multiple friends and family who’s lives have been destroyed by meth. Instead it’s just a bro having cool fun with words “hey keeps your computer awake! Get it? Ha! So clever!”
Take it easy, it was named after an older similar app, Caffeine.
It’s a clever name because it rhymes and they’re both stimulants. That’s all.
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#23You’re angry. I’ve felt this in a trademark lawsuit. You think the world should get behind you and change the corrupt system.
My advice is to immediately rebrand as gracefully and effectively as possible and use all that activist energy to effect the transition.
They kind of have a point which doesn’t make them right, but they hold all the cards and you will lose this one and regret the wasted bandwidth.
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#24That's very silly. The times are ready for a new job title: software product namer, to make sure a name won't offend anyone or violate trademarks and store guidelines.
Honestly the real enemy (if people are genuinely offended I tend to side with them) is people being offended on behalf of other people.
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#25Well-written argument for the app reviewers to get bent, especially the highlighted examples of other apps that show the rule is clearly applied inconsistently.
Apple's App Store moderation is embarrassing. They routinely fail to catch harmful junk—I've shut down a few top-grossing bogus antivirus apps for Mac, and the publisher of Untitled Goose Game routinely posts screenshots of clones that are trying to make money off confused users.
They've banned apps like Phone Story and a drone strike tracker for being "objectionable and crude," yet they don't apply any content moderation to the Book Store or to Music or TV (or to Safari for that matter). They've yet to provide a cogent justification for why they're inconsistent on this.
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#26I don’t understand the rationale to remove the app. Are they selling drugs through it or committing a crime with prior precedent in a court of law or under legislation passed by an elected committee?
If it’s just the name, how far does this go? Can I not name a band after a drug? Can I no longer write a book about drugs? What about a company? What if I’m a pharma company? Who is deciding these rules and how do we get rid of them?
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#27Next, some app named Nitrogen will be banned because it is related to explosives and therefore to terrorists.
Nitrogen is an element, and a very common one at that. Explosives are a fringe use case. Amphetamine on the other hand has only one very well defined use case. I get the reference to another similar app (Caffeine) but this is a step too far, indeed portraying a dangerous drug in a positive light.
It's not portraying anything in a positive light. The fact that this is the name of the app implies no value judgement.
Re: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
#28Wait until Apple realizes that "Final Cut Pro" seems to promote irreversible self harm for profit.
Re: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
#29Incredibly insensitive product naming. I’m guessing the software authors don’t have children and don’t have multiple friends and family who’s lives have been destroyed by meth. Instead it’s just a bro having cool fun with words “hey keeps your computer awake! Get it? Ha! So clever!”
You're the one who brought up meth.
Amphetamine isn't meth.
Looks like it's you that has the meth obsession. Shouldn't you be ashamed with yourself for having used the word? What about all the people whose children's lives have been destroyed by meth? Shouldn't you delete your comment?
Also can you please link me to a study that shows a causal link between names of apps, and an increase in usage in that drug the app is named after?
And then one that shows an increase in usage in a different drug (because again, amphetamine is not meth)?
I'd really, really like to read that study.
Presumably you want to ban WINE too, because of all the people who know someone who was an alcoholic? Have you written to the WINE maintainers telling them how evil they are?
Re: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
#30Incredibly insensitive product naming. I’m guessing the software authors don’t have children and don’t have multiple friends and family who’s lives have been destroyed by meth. Instead it’s just a bro having cool fun with words “hey keeps your computer awake! Get it? Ha! So clever!”
You didn't read the post, did you? Please go and read the post. Especially the following section: https://github.com/x74353/SaveAmphetamine#what-arguments-can... The App is named Amphetamine and not Meth which imho is a big difference.
You pointing out semantics makes zero difference to how I feel about meth/amphetamines and how regardless of semantics these are insensitive product names.
When I hear “Amphetamine” I instantly think if they people I know who’s lives have been destroyed, but you feel I’m mistaken and you’ve got a good argument against my line of thinking.
Telling me how to think.