Makes me wonder what proportion of Apple employees use Amphetamines regularly... Adderall is quite popular especially among techies.
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
#62You're not going to win against Apple. Change your app's name.
There is still an appeals process, change it after you exhaust that.
Re: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
#63First I m just wondering why can't they change the name of their app... And eventually ask for help from Apple to reroute confused customers.
Second apple is not responsible for your brand identity. A lot of people associate their brand with drugs. And it always come with drawbacks.
Should the app store promote drugs? Would you want that on the mac of your children?
Re: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I seriously doubt your nerdsniping changes the point of the original poster. Which you could easily figure out if you weren't so eager to jump upon every single minute detail and consequently missed the forest for the trees.
I wouldn’t call it nerdsniping. I found OPs argument to be a strawman.
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#65That'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.
In most cases where a group-defining parameter is simple, it's best to avoid classifying them as "the enemy".
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
To quote Stephen Fry on what I think of your argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzdpxKqEUAw
Re: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
How you feel has no bearing on altering the fabric of chemistry or reality.
Amphetamine is not meth and no amount of crying will change that.
Nor does someone naming an app "amphetamine" cause an increase in drug usage.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Meth is amphetamine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine
Sort of? It's more like a derivative (has an extra methyl group) and it's far more potent. So it would not be correct to say it "is amphetamine".
Re: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
#69Can we stop endlessly puting Apple's various authoritarians missteps under the spotlight? It's been literally decades now, we know they can and will do whatever they want in their walled garden. Stop giving them attention. Complaining clearly does not work, if you want to make a difference, change platforms. Nobody is forcing you to develop for Apple.
Re: Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store
#70Well-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 mone…
I don't necessarily agree that TV/Music/books need more moderation in terms of censorship (and they do have plenty of that), but more curation. Apple TV is a good example of that, it's highly curated. Books are really bad though. Amazon is no better, neither have any modicum of curation or taste when it comes to their bestsellers lists. The New York Times doesn't put salacious romance novels at the top no matter how…
What's wrong with romance novels?