It looks like Apple has given treatment to Twitter to allow it to rename itself X on the App Store. As developer Craig Hockenberry explains, apps submitted to Apple’s store should normally contain at least two letters in their name to be accepted. X obviously got an exception.
Needless to say now that Twitter has become X, Elon Musk’s social network making daily news since the transition. Indeed, every day there is a new revelation about this name change, and today is no exception. After the arrival of the new logo on the web version of the social network and then on its Android application, iOS users were the last to discover this X on a black background on their iPhone.
The news was generally rather poorly received, with some not even hesitating to sell their smartphones at auction at exorbitant prices, with the simple selling point of the fact that Twitter’s little blue bird was not there yet. been replaced by X. What if we told you that this change should never have been accepted by Apple? This is revealed by developer Craig Hockenberry – who also preferred to go through Mastodon to announce the news.
Apple does not apply the same rules to X as for other developers
Apple prides itself on treating all developers in the same way… except, obviously, Elon Musk and his teams. “I accept that this is not true, and there are good reasons why it is not true, but I would like Apple to stop claiming it,” sighs Craig Hockenberry. To support his point, the developer shared an image of the App Store as he tries to publish an application there, dubbed Z.
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Only here, this one is simply entitled to an error message, which indicates to him that the field dedicated to the name of the application is not filled enough. Since 2008, all applications submitted to the App Store must have a name consisting of at least two letters. Except, therefore, X. Difficult to explain this preferential treatment to which Twitter was entitled. It should be noted, however, that despite the massive departure of advertisers from the platform, Apple continues to buy advertising inserts on the social network.