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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/834308
Archived version: 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/
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…also started blocking the ‘x.com’ website, mistaking it for adult content.
It’s not a mistake, twitter is no place for children. Or anyone who can think for themselves.
Oh please no one who can think for themselves would use that platform? They’re not so smart and unique thinker like you?
No.
Hyperbole goes woosh
Just change it to Xitter . Pronounced shitter or exiter
Twitter lost all the engineers that realized you could just call it “X app” and get apple to agree to the change
I honestly wouldn’t be remotely surprised if someone proposed this solution and Elon just threw a tantrum and is now demanding that Apple changes their rules for him because he wants it to just be X
Don’t forget, this whole rebranding is basically just the culmination of a decades long tantrum about PayPal not letting him ruin their brand lol
Haha almost exactly what I just said and it looks like you already said it. To me this just shows that the people working there right now actually have no idea what’s going on, or at least the way the decision making structure is unable to hear any feedback from the technical team in charge of implementation. Like this is mobile app developer 101 stuff.
“World News”
“Twitter was able to change the logo of their iOS app but not the name, since Apple requires app names to be at least 2 characters,”
Just name it ‘X App’ problem solved. Anyone who has ever uploaded an app image to the app store should be well aware of the rules involved here and the Apple manual review process.
XX? Zur Sicherheit vielleicht noch ein drittes …
I love this.
Hey, Elon, have you considered -=X=-, or possibly “ecks”?
Or ex
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Dumb on Elon. This is clearly a decision he made the Sunday afternoon before he had it rolled out. He’d teased it a long time ago, and anyone familiar with his obession with the letter X would have seen it coming, but this implementation clearly demonstrates he didn’t ask anyone to look into what would be involved with the rebrand. He just made them do it
Get fucked, Elon
Now that I think about it, is this even copyrightable? How can you copyright a letter?
It’s not a question of copyright, it’s a question of trademark. And yes, you can.
Ah, but how do you trademark a Monotype capital X when the glyph already has design protection and is part of Unicode?
They’re taking someone else’s creation and saying “when used in this trade context, it can only belong to us.”
Ah, but how do you trademark a Monotype capital X when the glyph already has design protection and is part of Unicode?
You do it the same way everyone else trademarks stuff? I don’t see how using an existing font for the logo or the fact that it’s in Unicode makes any difference here. A logo just has to be distinctive compared to other existing trademarks, it can be made from elements that are common in other contexts.
For example, Mastercard’s logo is just a red and a yellow circle overlapping each other. Colored circles are nothing new or unusual.
They’re taking someone else’s creation and saying “when used in this trade context, it can only belong to us.”
Yes. That’s how trademarks work. It’s exactly what they’re for.
The thing that’s the stumbling block for Twitter’s rebranding is that “X” has already been trademarked by other companies, including in the context of social media. Not that it’s in Unicode.
Ah, I didn’t know the difference between a trademark and a copyright, it makes sense. I remember the case where Intel wanted to copyright the name of one of its old processors and they lost because they were a bunch of numbers so I thought it was comparable.
Lmao.
