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946 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 01 Jan 21 19:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.274s | source

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Incredibly insensitive product naming.

I’m guessing the software authors don’t have children and don’t have multiple friends and family who’s lives have been destroyed by meth.

Instead it’s just a bro having cool fun with words “hey keeps your computer awake! Get it? Ha! So clever!”

1. IX-103 ◴[01 Jan 21 19:46 UTC] No.25606160[source]▶

It's a successor of the (now-defunct) caffeine app which did mostly the same thing.

Given that most other coffee names were already taken, I can understand the logic of why they chose the name.

As you said though, it is now considered by many to be insensitive. So Apple it's probably in the right here.

I'm sure they would welcome suggestions on how to rebrand.

Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App Store