Matt CengiaI *hate* it when companies do this. Of *course* this is *My* Telstra; it's my bloody phone! Stop prefixing all my mobile app names with "My" and making it hard to find them in the alphabetical list!
Stephen Collins@mattcen wait until Apple releases the myPhone.
Florian Gilcher
1.3.6.1.4.1.61513@mattcen Also please stop renaming your app every year (looking at you Android Google Pay Wallet)
Michael Pryor@mattcen Strong agree. As irritating as 'i' - iThis and iThat and iSomethingElse.
Sarah, The Website Therapist@MichaelPryor @mattcen especially when copycats started using it without the “i” meaning internet. An “internet phone” makes sense, especially given when it was first released. But it got so overused.
Kit Rhett Aultman@MichaelPryor @mattcen While we're at it, Delta's app is Fly Delta, so it's not under D like I expect. And for a while, MLB's apps were called like "At Bat", "First Pitch", and "At the Ballpark" so fat chance I'd find them on the first try.
The Rail Life@mattcen 100% yes! Makes them so difficult to find alphabetically, when half of them start with "M".
Mathew Inkson 
@mattcen A pet peeve of mine. I wonder if I can configure Nova Launcher to ignore "My" the same way media managers ignore "The".
Phil Sutherland@mattcen Would be nice if the platform allowed you to set your own override names for applications too.
Melissa BearTrix 🏳️⚧️
Lett Osprey 
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@mattcen Oh at least those have the rest of the name be something useful.
I had 3 apps used to connect to different stuff, like my watch etc, and they were all just called "Connect"
Like, how much do they think about the intuitiveness of their app name when they just call it "Connect"
And my internet provider, NextGenTel, didn't call their app "My NextGenTel", but "my account". Like wtf...
I ended up being so frustrated that I went through all my apps and renamed them into what I felt logically they should be called.
@lettosprey ... How did you do that!? Tell me your secrets! 🙂
@lettosprey (the Internet suggests that only some app launchers support this customisation)
@mattcen How it is done depends a bit on what phone you use / UI you have selected. I am not even sure it works for all UIs.
But luckily for me, it was very simple to rename the apps on the launcher I use :O
I honestly thing this is something they all should support, it feels like a rather basic functionality :)
@lettosprey I am at this moment experimenting with switching from the default Pixel launcher to Nova, specifically to resolve this issue!
@mattcen I use action launcher and have good experiences with this. The "swipe right and get list of apps" is exactly what I needed, it is a fast shortcut to finding the app I need. It was also WAY less of a resource hog than the default samsung launcher.
Charlotte :kinua:@lettosprey @mattcen “well, it’s an app for connecting our users to their device,—“ grrrrrrrrr
@lettosprey @mattcen and apparently the color of connection is a kinda grey-blue?
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@mattcen MyAusSocial
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Nemo Thorx@mattcen some people will say websites are old fashioned compared to apps. But at least the Web got the "my-" prefix out of its system with myspace!
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Adam ♿@mattcen The monkey's paw will curl and we'll be back to iEverything.
Primo@mattcen waiting for half of the companies to jump on a bandwagon of "your" prefixes leaving anyone confused wether tjey need to check m or y.
Ash@mattcen to be fair to one of these, I think calling the app "Gov" would be like parody
Resuna@mattcen Been salty about this since I first saw "My Documents" on a user's desktop.
Am I?@mattcen
I blame programming tutorials that teach people "my_number" that is just wrong in so many ways, and people never learn.
I blame programming tutorials that teach people "my_number" that is just wrong in so many ways, and people never learn.
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Joanna Holman@mattcen @winterknell similarly, stop calling apps Authenticator. I have three and I’m tired of remembering which one relates to what