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Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules

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Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules - Lemmy.zip

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/834308 [https://lemmy.zip/post/834308] > Archived version: https://archive.ph/cQmID [https://archive.ph/cQmID] > Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230729214729/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/apple-rejects-new-name-x-for-twitter-ios-app-because-rules/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230729214729/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/apple-rejects-new-name-x-for-twitter-ios-app-because-rules/]

Jul 29, 2023 at 10:39pmWeb
Show threadDankryJul 29, 2023
Lol awesome. Fuck Elon Musk.
Show threadaeternumJul 29, 2023
no thanks. I don't fuck manbabies.
Show threadjeffwJul 29, 2023
Pretty easy solution. Just show it in the App Store as “X - A Social Media App” or some shit
Show threadAltoJul 29, 2023
"The App Formerly Know as Twitter"
Show threadacockworkorangeJul 29, 2023
The Prince solution, I like it.
Show threadArt35ianJul 30, 2023
Love Finderrz with two Rs and a Z.
Show threadBrikoXJul 29, 2023
Apple discourages adding subtitle as part of the app name and I don’t recall ever seeing one, so they might even disallow it.
Show threadThekingoflordaJul 30, 2023
Didn’t meta’s threads do that?
Show threadBrikoXJul 30, 2023

Quick check shows that you are right. apps.apple.com/us/app/…/id6446901002

Threads was already taken apps.apple.com/us/app/threads/id1599153821

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Show threadShaded CosmosJul 29, 2023
X Media maybe
Show threadNielloJul 29, 2023
And then XVideos would be canon.
Show threadKoboldschadenfrohJul 30, 2023
Maybe he’ll pay so much money to xvideos that they give him the domain. Not impossible.
Show threadCamzingJul 29, 2023
Ten
Show threadThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥Jul 30, 2023
I’m once again begging you people to not fucking besmirch the debut album of Pearl Jam. Thank you.
Show threadLemmyLeftyJul 30, 2023
Is that what Gordon plays when you don’t see the signal?
Show threadAnonymousLlamaJul 29, 2023
Good old minimum character validation
Show threadgkdJul 30, 2023
I admittedly didn’t read the article. Is that the reason or does someone already have an app called X? Either way they can just call it like “X - Formerly known as Twitter” but he’s probably too childish to do that.
Show threadIDatedSuccubiJul 30, 2023
Yeah, there’s just a minimum requirement on app names in the store
Show threadnetromJul 29, 2023

“What about X and a space, either before or after?” software developer Yusuf Alp suggested a potential workaround in response to Berlin’s post.

“He already has a company called SpaceX,” chuckled Berlin.

Gold.

Show threadfearoutJul 29, 2023
This is amazing :)
Show threaddevil_d0cJul 30, 2023
That too me way too long to get lol
Show threadAmilo1591Jul 30, 2023

This could very well indicate resentment of Twitter employees, they were told to change name to X, they tried and it didn’t work, so they did nothing else.

Perfect example of notmyjob.

Show threadlemme_at_itJul 30, 2023
MaliciusCompliance
Show threadsebinspaceJul 29, 2023
Inb4 he throws an ego-driven temper tantrum because they won’t make an exception to a rule that has existed since the dawn of the app store specifically for his special ass.
Show threadLemmyLeftyJul 30, 2023
“Did you know Steve Jobs was a pedo?” “Oh shut up, Elon.”
Show threadWilshireJul 30, 2023
Read that as “dawn of the ape store”
Show threadKuroshioJul 30, 2023
I read it is as “tempura tantrum”
Show threadTotsJul 29, 2023
I’m sure this won’t end up being a huge deal, but the funny part is that this apparently wasn’t planned for. Gives you some insight into how much of a shit show Twitter/X HQ must be right now.
Show threadPuppyJul 30, 2023

I think it's fait to just call it Twitter and not "x" or "twitter/x" or "x social" or "Twitter but actually x"

X will never stick 😅

Show threadericJul 30, 2023
“Elon, stop trying to make X happen. It’s not going to happen.”
Show threadsaltescJul 30, 2023
It was cool in the 90s like i in front of a word was cool in the 00/10s. That was his era.
Show threadKoboldschadenfrohJul 30, 2023
Yeah, I’ve been saying that too. That was popular back then, and he’s a Gen Xer, he had his heyday in the 90s/early 2000s. Tells you how stunted his mental growth must be if he still thinks it’s cool.
Show threadBuddahrifficJul 30, 2023
Leaded gas just started being phased out in the US in 1973 was still in use in the 80s was didn’t stop entirely until 1996. South Africa didn’t ban it until sometime between 2002 and 2006. It’s often used in reference to boomers, but gen x was also affected, even millennials to a lesser degree.
Show threadKoboldschadenfrohJul 30, 2023
Leaded gas can be used even today by some small propellor planes. I know about leaded gas, but what does that have to do with what I said? If leaded gas was the reason Musk is the way he is, everybody in older generations would be like him.
Show threadFlying SquidJul 30, 2023

everybody in older generations would be like him.

I mean…

Show threadtrashcanJul 30, 2023
He tried to do this 20 years ago with PayPal. This is just a midlife crisis, no grand plan.
Show threadOverzeetopJul 30, 2023
I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.
Show threadCmot_DibblerJul 30, 2023

I’m not. Prince was awesome. He changed his name to a symbol because Warner Bros trademarked his name and wouldn’t let him do what he wanted with his own music. People started calling him The Artist Formally Know as Prince. But the reason was ignored and everyone made fun of him.

Musk is an idiot and loser and shouldn’t be even tangentially compared to Prince.

Show threadDylpicklesJul 30, 2023

I think you’re a little silly for assuming that directly references Prince. I wasn’t even alive when all that stuff with Prince was happening and I had only heard it happened in a conversation I had with my mom when I was like 12.

That’s just kinda what you call something that was formerly known as something else when the something else is not well received.

Show threadtrashcanJul 31, 2023
It was popularized by the Prince situation whether people know that today or not.
Show threadRaknJul 30, 2023
This might hurt a little, but I don’t think most people today know who Prince is. I just know that he was a musician. That sentence is also a commonly used sentence in such scenarios, unrelated to one person.
Show threadKoboldschadenfrohJul 30, 2023
I think most people over 30 do. Maybe the younger crowd doesn’t know him…but looking at birthrates, young people are not a majority.
Show threadBuddahrifficJul 30, 2023
Call it “no”, or maybe “close button”.
Show threadquaddoJul 30, 2023
“Two drunk buddies holding one another up”
Show threadlemme_at_itJul 30, 2023
Wrong
Show threadOtakuAltairJul 30, 2023
No idea who prince except he’s a musician but “the site formerly known as Twitter” sounds hilarious
Show threadtrashcanJul 30, 2023
formerly known as
Show threadCmot_DibblerJul 31, 2023
Aye yai yai. Yes, thank you.
Show threadBilliamJul 30, 2023
eX-Twitter.
Show threadKyyrypyyJul 30, 2023
Ex-Twitter, if you will.
Show threadKoboldschadenfrohJul 30, 2023
Is anything there planned for anymore? They seem to have more of a fuck around and find out approach.
Show threadReady! Player 31Jul 30, 2023
It’s been renamed to X on my partner’s iPhone so they seem to have gotten round it already.
Show threadasparagappleJul 30, 2023
Same for me but the App Store page for the app still says Twitter. Changing it there requires approval I think.
Show threadSheeEttinJul 30, 2023
If it’s like Android apps, the name in the app store and on the phone can be different.
Show threadderangerJul 30, 2023
They haven’t. It’s still Twitter in the App Store. The icon/app name on your phone is not what the article is discussing.
Show threadHere_in_MalaysiaJul 31, 2023
That’s crazy. He wants to turn the app into an everything app and there isn’t even concrete plans in place. Wish I could be a fly on the wall in their meetings. If they even have one.
Show threadmanicvelocityJul 29, 2023
He’s going to try to sue Apple over this, and he thinks he will win.
Show threadViolet_McQuasionalJul 29, 2023
It’s quite something how Twitter has been constantly tinkered with since musk took over, and instead of making any tangible improvements, it’s actually just created more mess.
Show threadKoboldschadenfrohJul 30, 2023

We have a nice word in German for that. “Verschlimmbessern”.

Schlimm = very bad Bessern = to (get/make) better

It’s like in this case, when you try to improve something and it just makes much, much worse.

Show threadKuroshioJul 30, 2023
Is there a word in German that emphasizes how German has a word for everything?