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jiehong
26 days ago
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The Mac app flea market
Perhaps app stores should have a minimum hamming distance requirement [0] on the names of apps, so that names could not be too similar by default.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance
kccqzy
26 days ago
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The names of the app on the App Store doesn't even match the name of the downloaded app. They need to change that first. Otherwise the name is just another SEO opportunity.
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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance