On this thinking, let’s see Apple be brave & remove every app in the App Store with the word ‘speed’ in the title!🤣
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Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened With Removal Over Branding
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They should've disallowed the name to begin with. At this point it's too late because they accepted it long ago, and it should be considered "grandfathered in."
The Play Store has way less restrictive rules and doesn't seem to enforce them much either.
Also, this app does a lot more than just sleep after X seconds. I don't think there's a CLI for those features.
You can delete your user folder pretty easily. I don't even care what kind of damage is done to /System, that stuff is easily restorable anyway.
They have their pros and cons like any model, but I believe the benefits still vastly outweigh the drawbacks for consumers. Maybe not so much for developers.
Google is a free-for-all. It’s not that they don’t care but they just don’t vet apps like Apple does. When you download an app for android you have to vet it yourself. Sure if Google catches an app being malicious they will remove it but other than that they don’t do anything.
As to this I don’t agree with Apple trying to pull the app because it’s just silly. Obviously what happened was someone complained when they saw the name in the App Store. This is why Apple has the appeals process so higher people at Apple can see and make a decision.
Because Google doesn't care, their store is full of shady crap including outright malware/viruses. Compared to Apple they have barely any policies in place.
trying to stop coffee because it stains my teeth so badly. second day in now. luckily no withdrawal headaches, but boy am I tired all day long, like completely unusable..
Does making your Mac sleep really save any significant amount of energy in a home / normal usage?
The App store is now so big, that even with 4, 5 or 6 sigma quality control, some periodic number of completely idiotic app review rejections (and acceptances!) will slip through. I've had a couple, fortunately overturned without too much hassle.
Is that why Android developers make so much more total revenue, and Android users encounter so much less malware compare to iOS? Oh wait!
Agreed... I mean caffeine and a cup of coffee is my way of staying awake (not punching amphetamines).
Which amphetamines are legal anyway? A quick web search suggests that you're talking about dexi's and stuff (which are what... ADHD meds?) In short, '[a]ll of these drugs can be legally prescribed by a doctor for the treatment of various medical and psychological disorders'.
Meh... can't say I'll be using the app anyway. IMO (like real amphetamines) it's gonna shorten the life of your lappie running it heavily with the screen shut. The cooling system isn't made for that...
Yeah one golden rule is to NEVER cut and paste a terminal command unless you can read it and are 100% confident you know what it does.
This is what happens when a boss at Apple comes across something and takes it upon himself to show how important his role is to the company by trying to do something to show how he’s looking out for the company better than the rest. But in fact I’d just proving how disconnected he is from everything and is showing how dumb and useless he is. But since he is in charge everyone just goes along with it because there is no arguing with him.
when something is called a killer app, do you take that literally to mean that it kills people? when we say Apple destroys the competition, do you think Microsoft offices are a smoking hulk? There used to be an Apple accelerator card called a "rail gun", do you think anyone thought it was an actual rail gun?
the world is full of hyperbolic analogy.
An example of political correctness /woke censorship. Apparently some Apple employees have too much time on their hands.
speed, crank, uppers, juice, meth, ..... how about just "Mac-amphetamine" to make it clear it was only designed to keep your Mac away but not you. The whole thing is silly. The premise that if any word is used in an analogy, it is promoting usage of the original item. an app called "time killer" would be banned because it advocates that one should go out and kill people.
This app is not for that. In fact, you don't need an app for that, Apple laptops always had this feature.