What is your stance on this decision?
Perhaps a decision by an overly enthusiastic Apple employee? Or a really stupid move by the company.
My Mac mini is an always on home server. Running Amphetamine constantly is the only way I can prevent it from going to sleep. It has always ignored the settings in Energy Saver.
Like most of Appleās decisions with the App Store, this was a stupid one.
Fortunately someone realized that before it went too far.
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I use Amphetamine too, but an alternative is ācaffeinateā in Terminal. It prevents you Mac from sleeping.
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Sure, but Amphetamine has a lot of additional features which I much prefer.
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Agreed. Caffeinate is handy if you want your Mac to stay awake until a command finishes, then allow sleep. Iāve used it like
caffeinate matlab -r long_analysis.m
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Nice tip! I have some long wget crawls that will benefit from this (and this will let me increase the pausing to decrease pressure on the hosts without having to babysit longer.)
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As a user, this is tiresome. Apple clearly needs procedures in place where apps that have been in the App Store for ages shouldnāt be removed so easilyā¦
These stories are becoming so common. Apple threatens to remove the app. The developer goes public and Apple reverses the decision.
geeā¦
following this line of reasoning they should remove the 
emojiā¦ 
Along with the 
emoji?
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People are not endangered by emojis or app names. Weird world view.
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Exactly what I was thinking!
People are not endangered by an app that keep your Mac awake tooā¦ as already stated by everybody else 
we should not elect a private company as a judge of morality, imo
Edit: I misread some comments š„ø
Are children endangered by the name of the app?
editing nowCocaine snorting simulator for Androidā¦ https://snort-coke-drugs.en.aptoide.com/app
In the iOS App store, I can at least buy the āDrug Mafia Weed Pawn Shopā ā¦ https://apps.apple.com/bz/app/drug-mafia-weed-pawn-shop/id1523500596
And no, it wonāt lead people to addiction.
You can get Grand Theft Auto on the Mac App Store. So Apple is fine with drugs and violence, just not the name of an app.
So dumb.
I agree, but the regulatory environment currently is that societally we have decided to hold these companies responsible for enforcing moral behavior on their platform. As long as we are holding them responsible, we are going to get these sorts of weird decisions.
And letās not even get into the general contents of the Apple Music catalog.
Although itās not just Apple. I had a post on Facebook in an emergency preparedness group where I asked about a container for storing prescription medication. Facebook banned the post because they said I was seeking to buy drugs. Itās just getting ridiculous.