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[โ€“] Hello_there@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter lost all the engineers that realized you could just call it "X app" and get apple to agree to the change

[โ€“] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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