That was kind of the issue to begin with. That’s why it’s “For Reddit”. Google even had this stupid naming scheme because “Reddit Is Fun” existed at the time, and they even had to change to “RiF For Reddit”. The “For Reddit” part already mitigates that worry - as I understand, that was the entire point of Google enforcing that policy to begin with.
And honestly I’m just kind of being wishy about it. I’d have loved to see all of the Reddit apps basically Trojan horse their users into Lemmy rather than simply shut down. We can dream can’t we? :P
Reddit made that change to apps not Google. I remember when they wanted to have all reddit clients be “for reddit” because they were about to put out the official app
That was kind of the issue to begin with. That’s why it’s “For Reddit”. Google even had this stupid naming scheme because “Reddit Is Fun” existed at the time, and they even had to change to “RiF For Reddit”. The “For Reddit” part already mitigates that worry - as I understand, that was the entire point of Google enforcing that policy to begin with.
And honestly I’m just kind of being wishy about it. I’d have loved to see all of the Reddit apps basically Trojan horse their users into Lemmy rather than simply shut down. We can dream can’t we? :P
Reddit made that change to apps not Google. I remember when they wanted to have all reddit clients be “for reddit” because they were about to put out the official app
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28755825/android-app-naming-guidelines-first-word-as-company
This seems to suggest otherwise.
The reply from Google is that this guy couldn’t name his app “xkcd Viewer”…he had to name it Viewer FOR xkcd…
So no, it wasn’t Reddit who made that change to apps, it was Google, as I correctly stated.
They may have been around the same time, but I still very much remember reddit being behind the change to distinguish the official app
But Reddit doesn’t have that authority. Reddit can’t make Apple change their naming guidelines.