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  • Apple threatened to pull Amphetamine macOS app over branding

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    elijahg said:
    I pass judgment of the name itself, but this exactly is what keeps catching the ire of regulators, and getting Apple into hot water. Something that has apparently been fine for years is suddenly not, either due to a reinterpretation of the existing rules which haven’t changed; or more likely someone in a higher position at Apple has noticed the name and doesn’t like it. It’s not fair. 

    At least the dev can continue to offer their app outside the App Store. I don’t know anyone who actually uses the Mac App Store anyway, I never do as I can’t stand the babying the sandboxing enforces. 
    Just as a point of interest... just because an app is not available for distribution in the Mac App Store, does not mean that the developer of the App has not "sandboxed" it.  This is an option when writing the App in Xcode and a developer can choose whether to sandbox it or not.  ;-)
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  • Apple threatened to pull Amphetamine macOS app over branding

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    retrogusto said:
    I see Apple’s position, but a better response might be, “why weren’t these features already built into the OS?”

    Amen!  There are plenty of people who want normal power save functionality to be in effect when they are not doing something special... like rendering a video.  Nobody likes to change the settings all the time when they want to ensure that their Mac does not fall asleep 1 hour into a 20 hour video render.  Just launch the program... and you are good to go.  It is maddening that apple does not do what many of the seasoned Mac Heads think is important.  Personally, I am still waiting for a universal junk mail feature... or at least the opportunity to opt in to one.  I know that this would not be something that everybody would want...because some people have work machines and some have personal machines... and there could be differences in the junk mail preferences that follow that paradigm.  If they can synch all kinds of other things through iCloud...why not junk mail rules and tagging?  LOL.
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