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Apple Backtracks After Popular Mac App 'Amphetamine' Threatened With Removal Over Branding
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The app has been in the store for over four years and now Apple has a problem with it?
This is nothing more than Apple catering to outrage junkies so they can build their SJW cred. It's all about $$$.
Or a variety of other plausible explanations brought up throughout the thread.
Any plausible explanation designed to transfer money from one's bank account into Apple's. Anything else is a warm fuzzy pipe dream.
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Right! I didn’t invent World Time Format or make that website. I met the guy that created it and got his permission to make an iPhone app for it that I called WTFClock. And then persuaded him to add the date (at first it was just a clock).
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Popular Mac app "Amphetamine" will remain on the Mac App Store after reportedly being threatened with removal over its name and branding, which Apple had said breached App Store guidelines.
Amphetamine is a free Mac app that helps users to keep their machine awake for a set amount of time. Launched in 2014, the app has been downloaded over 432,000 times and is highly rated on the Mac App Store. The app has also been featured by MacRumors in the past. After six years on the Mac App Store, Apple suddenly decided that Amphetamine has been violating App Store Guidelines.
The developer of Amphetamine, William Gustafson, posted an extensive report on GitHub a few days ago explaining that a representative of Apple contacted him, saying that Amphetamine would be removed from the Mac App Store on January 12, 2021, if a number of changes were not made to the app. The representative indicated that Amphetamine breached the following requirement:
The Apple representative reportedly said "Your app appears to promote inappropriate use of controlled substances. Specifically, your app name and icon include references to controlled substances, pills."
Gustafson argued that Amphetamine does not promote the use of illegal drugs because amphetamine is a legal, prescription medication in the United States. He also noted that "objectively speaking," Amphetamine does not encourage amphetamine to be taken "irresponsibly, illegally, or recreationally."
Gustafson filed an appeal and set up a Change.org petition that has garnered over 500 signatures in an effort to combat the claim against the app. And just a short time ago, he announced on Twitter that he had finished a phone call with the App Review Board and that Amphetamine will remain on the Mac App Store.
Amphetamine has been directly promoted by Apple in a Mac App Store Story and has racked up over 1,400 reviews on the Mac App Store, so it seems odd that the app was only being asked to change its branding now. Furthermore, Gustafson said that he has had countless interactions with Apple and its App Review Team regarding Amphetamine, but the issue was never raised before, so it is unclear what triggered the issue.
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i think name is stupid because actually only living beings (and not all of them) sleeps. electrical/mechanical things, by default, works endlessly until energy source ends. So, from what ive read this app its more for setup when mac should sleep, and in this case "melatonine" should be more appropriate, but of course drugs are cool, melatonine isnt.
but, considering amphetamine its for poors, why dont call it cocaine instead? with a premium plan upgrade called 100% colombian?
Don't quote me on this, but I believe the Developer used the Open Source code from Caffeine to create this app when Caffeine itself was sunset by the original developer. Thus, the similar name.
Another developer, IntelliScape Solutions has since taken up the original Caffeine app and continued development on it, but it's not nearly as feature-rich as Amphetamine.
Given that the app is free and Apple makes no money by offering it, I would say your comment is rather self-serving. In other words, you just want to complain and bash Apple, and you're willing to come across as a fool just to do it.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. They train machines to do these jobs and they make decisions like this because they don’t understand context and humor.
Proabaly a reviewer that was under a heavy dose of amphetamines that day ?
but the issue was never raised before, so it is unclear what triggered the issue.
Never really looked for an application like this. Have been using hot corners since it was introduced in MacOS.
I don't have a problem with Apple. I love Apple products. Best products in the world. I have a problem with Tim Cook, who seems to think he's in a different profession. If he wants to take that direction I would suggest that he resign first, instead of soapboxing outside his area of expertise.
If you think this will move a bunch of text files from source/ to destination/ ... maybe you should stay out of Terminal and stick to the Finder.
For far too many Americans these days, it's considered en vogue to be offended by something. It's because too many Americans are thin-skinned and know nothing about real adversity.
I agree. Both my parents grew up during the Great Depression and from what I have read 90% of Americans wouldn't have clue one on how to handle it.
Neither did the ones that had to live through it before they actually had to live through it.
Right, but you can brand anything you like. If people aren't going to buy it because of that then you either change it or fail.