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xeromal | karma 6583 | avg karma 2.12 · 2022-01-17 10:57:24

Yeah, once I caught gist of what was bothering them, I would've just nuked Libre from the title and all translations.

Just call it the Card Wallet and be done with it.

sdoering | karma 7380 | avg karma 3.71 · 2022-01-17 11:06:19

This would be practical - but what about companies like "Free Now" that are (at least currently) seemingly allowed to keep operating under that name in the Play store.

Why delete something from the name that is actually transporting information for the user just because Google arbitrarily decides that for this rue the mistranslation comprises a rule break while other apps (with probably bigger marketing spend on Google) are allowed to keep "Free" in the name.

Imho is not the rules per se. It is the mistranslation and also the arbitrary enforcement that reminds me personally of stories by Kafka (the author, not the tech).

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xeromal | karma 6583 | avg karma 2.12 · 2022-01-17 11:15:30

If your livelihood is tied to an app in the store being published, you gotta play ball.

If you can survive with or without the app being published, then I'd definitely take a crack at trying to explain to Google what their problem is.

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