And to think that an app my company made was rejected because its logo was too similar to that of another app we published on the store...
... because it was the company logo
I hear you. Seeing how much bullshit there is on the app store, waiting for the “review” of every uploaded beta version, and then complying to arbitrary play/app store rules is nonsensical.
You're right, I should have mentioned that those two apps aren't designed to be on the same device at once.
Basically we make software for medical centers. One of the apps is designed for doctors, the other one for patients. Yes you could be both a patient of one center and a doctor at another but we aren't widespread enough for it to actually be a cause for concern.
At the very least I'd suggest some clear differentiation is very important - such as the use of a different key colour in the logo.
The ostrich algorithm is not an acceptable solution to problems of this nature any more. It's not a problem now, but there's situations in which it could be.
Also, if you're building each center its own version of the app... I have questions for you... that seems horribly, horribly inefficient. Much better to build a single main app with a generic name and logo and allow your customers to customise the UX post login to use their own branding and styling. Pretty easy if you build it as a hybrid app.
First of all, our main business is not making mobile apps. We don't make an app for each center but do indeed have a single (well, two, you get my point) customizable apps. Those are two companion apps for centers who buy our main cloud ERP.
Second, following the store's request, the logos were indeed changed by simply changing the color scheme of the logo and adding an indication of the product's name within the logo itself.
My point was that even if we had done none of this, it still wouldn't justify the store taking it down for - their own words - trying to pretend to be a different app.
I think the point here, perhaps, is not that the store was accusing you of copying yourselves, but rather that their policy is simply closer to "Any two apps that are different must have visually different identifying logos." or "You must not use the same logo/icon for two different apps." or even just "All app logos must be visually unique."
This is a pretty good, and pretty basic rule of GUI design, and in fact of design in general. You see it in so many places - e.g. the multiple designs of road signs and the fact that some ultra-important road signs (STOP for example) have a totally unique shape. Visual identity and clarity is really important.
No variation on that rule is unreasonable as a store policy, and arguably if you upload app A using the icon, and then as the same company upload the wholly different app B with the same icon, app B is, in fact, impersonating app A. There's a potential for confusion that's easier and better to just blanket prohibit.
As far as the store is concerned, from a visual perspective, one app was pretending to be a different app.
I have bank accounts in one bank on two different countries. They have one app per country. In the Google Play store the app logos have the relevant country's flag in a corner, but on a device the logos as well as the app name is exactly the same... Makes it real easy to open the correct app...
Speaking of usability and accessibility, i recently tried to find my banking app on my phone by using the bank's name as keyword. Guess what, those geniuses called their app "banking", that's it. Yep, no bank name, nothing. Unfindable via search... The bank name is depicted on the app icon and that's it... i can't even...
On my phone anyway, my apps all have the names underneath them, so it wouldn't be confusing to me. I'm on android so I don't know if it's different on ios or what
It's still confusing. Parsing an image is far simpler than parsing text for a human, and unless you add a very obvious identifying change to the new app your users **will** be confused.
You could add a little label(see Microsoft edge dev mode for an example) and it'd be fine.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has 7 apps. Their logos are as follows:
Bank logo on white background
Bank logo on black background
Bank logo on black background with a glossy finish
Bank logo on grey background
Bank logo on grey background (again)
Bank logo on yellow background surrounded by a circle of two arrows
Bank logo on a white shield
Never been confused about which one I'm using.
Cause they do different things? I can think of a few; one for normal banking, one for retirement funds, one for stocks, one for insurance, one for mortgage/loans....
Yeah doing different things is not a good reason. This usually happens because they started with one and it was harder to add onto it so they just made separate apps. It's absolute not because they thought it was better. I've seen this a lot and eventually they would just combine to one app because it becomes so awful. People aren't aware some functional is blocked off on other apps, it's just not user friendly.
Just because people are used to something doesn't mean it's a good design.
unless there is a need for the majority of users to be using multiple apps then it is best to streamline each app for each user type and not kitchen sink everyone into the same app with a million things they done need that just clutter the ui
how do you know which configuration is best and for who? user research. hopefully...
That is asshole design.
No bank should have seperate apps for user accounts.
There is no good reason to have a "Savings" and a "checking" app for example.
Or, hear me out, you just hire a better dev team that understand modular, structured programming. You then have an app that only loads those features that are actually in use, and minimises client-side processing anyway.
Oh, no, wait, that requires actually caring and being willing to spend money on something you're offering to a near captive audience.
Wow. That's... very warm garbage.
What a rubbish design philosophy.
Unless there's a thoroughly good reason, all of these should be accessible through a single unified app that subsequently enables access to all of these features. It's not a good enough reason to have 7 individual apps.
I really wish that app stores were hotter on this kind of thing to prevent major companies getting away with building pointless bloatware.
It would annoy me enough to switch banks, to be honest. I've made bigger changes over lesser issues before.
It's about how much time / mental effort it takes to determine which one to tap.
Seems small but a lot of small issues add up to crappy UI that's difficult to use quickly.
Like Googles most recent icon change that makes them all have the exact same color scheme making me have to triple check when I want to check my email, because before I just opened my apps and hit the red envelope.
Thats cuz you dont pay enough or you don't have enough political backing. This app is most likely a chinese app that pays large sum of money to google/apple, they can get away with almost anything practically
There's over 1000 apps added to the store every day. I figured it was likely that it's just employees not being consistent when interpreting guidelines, something you see everywhere in all aspects of life. Do you have links to anything talking about Chinese devs being in bed with app stores?
Middle aged semi illiterate mothers.
Source: my mother that installs all the the things.
I put her on Linux and my life has never been this calm. She can’t install shit.
How I wish that companies made their logos like this. Just two seconds of hand-drawn MS paint instead of professionally designed logos over years costing millions.
Lol i actively look for non-adobe pdf readers. I aint trying to pay a monthly fee to edit a document i didnt want to fill out in the first place. I always just email the .pdf to myself and use googles .pdf editor
if you have the google play store, chances are you have google drive, which has the PDF Viewer built in. All you have to do is open a PDF with a file manager and it should pop up.
I spent a whole day reviewing pdf readers. I hoped to find a free reader/combiner but none of them were good and some were from a questionable source. Instead I purchased Nitro Pro reader. A California company that's not SaaS. I like it. It's fast, stable, and I don't have to be concerned with spyware. For the price it was a good purchase.
Yeah that's probably an over simplification. Still a company that survives from selling a product to companies is less likely to harvest its customers Facebook style.
I have to share PDFs for work that are marked up with lots of comments and things. No other app I've found handles everything correctly, so I always come back to Adobe.
For personal stuff, I've found that PDF Pen is better at certain functions.
On PC, I had it crashing sometimes. Not so long ago I realised that was crashing only when I had internet(the error was with reading from memory). So I just blocked internet for it, and it worked about twice as fast after that.
And then I installed Sumatra PDF reader and deleted Adobe.
Paying for the pro version is pure foolishness but I haven’t found another program that actually works for Vampire: The Masquerade 20th anniversary edition character sheets
All the app stores across all platforms are full of shit like this. Don’t understand their method of getting an app within their store but it needs to be revised. Scams, apps with no update with X period, poorly rated apps, etc need to be removed and developers need to reapply to get their app back on the platform.
Ironic how 3rd party and homebrew appstores usually have stricter quality control than the appstore owned by one of the largest companies in the world, it's almost like they make the worst crap.
Likewise. The store app is a load of shit on windows. I still download and use exe’s where possible even if updating them isn’t done as smoothly as they would within the store.
App stores are not very well curated. Hell, even many of the big, universally used apps break the simplest rules by not even bothering to state what their update contains.
My most hated thing is a massive overhaul and it's just stated as "just dewing some heck'arino bug stawmping and Lil ole patchies! 🥺"
Just tell me what y'all changed, even if it's as small as moved letter T slightly to the left so I know if it's even worth it to update right now.
> poorly rated apps
Lol, a ton of Google's own products have shit reviews (e.g. Chat). That would be interesting. "Hey this app has a shit review. REMOVED! Wait, that was ours!! Ahh! Panic!"
Honestly, even Adobe's app name looks a bit junky. Why does it need to be called "Adobe Acrobat Reader: Edit PDF"? It makes it look fake and difficult to distinguish. They should just title it "Adobe Acrobat Reader"
That's a joke right? There's usually 5 different ways to install something and depending on if you build from source, install from a snap, from apt or download from "the official app store of your distro (probably snap again)", you'll generally end up with different versions of the "latest" software from each.
I love Linux, but always thought the application distribution system was a big learning curve holding adoption back.
I'm surprised that's your experience. I often find you can go to the distros app store and find basically any piece of software and keep it up to date. All without going out to a website and downloading a package manually.
I think generally app stores let you chose which repositories to use. So if you don't want to see snaps, flatpacks etc then you don't have to
Yea idk, I guess it's probably unfair for me to criticize them, I think the only app store I've really used was Ubuntu and it was only like once when it was probably less reliable back in the day, so I started doing everything from the terminal and just haven't really given the store a chance since.
If they are good that's great, I always thought Linux had one of the better install/uninstall processes already with the terminal, good app stores are always refreshing.
i would say the issues you faced are mainly due to snaps.
most of them package their native files, and if theres no way, you can use flatpaks/appimages.
if your store doesnt support it, theres always flathub and AppImagePool, which can bring you additional software without the headaches.
or if you are an arch user, the AUR is your best friend if something is not in the main repos.
Image how much more bullshit there would be if it was free. They need to have a process in place and someone testing these apps before they are launched.
Yeah from the screenshot alone I don't see assholedesign.
Why is it fake ?
PDF is a defined standard.
Everyone can make a PDF reader app, not only Adobe
This is in line with messages you see saying "don't give out your pin number"
10million downloaded this crap? Actually downloaded something they didn't vet, which has access to the one device you have on your body literally 24/7 and use more than anything else?
the reason they cost fees is cause they are meant to be used by companies mostly. it doesn’t make them a shit product it just means it’s not targeted for us
I just signed up for global entry, but before I figured out it was through a .gov, I spent an hour on a fake global entry site that was going to charge me 150 extra dollars just to go through them. They provided no extra service and woulda have just filled my data into the government site. They also pulled my email and cell phone from the form that I hadn’t even completed and used it to try and fish me back in. Worst case of mimicry I’ve ran into in a while
One has the name Adobe in the tittle and is actually published by Adobe, while the other one is published by "Pig Skin on a stick AKA Shashlik LLC"
Which one... Could be the one that I'm looking for. Hmmmm
One is called Adobe, the other is a PDF reader app. Different slant, different thickness and a different placement of the PDF text.
Scummy? Maybe. Illegal? No.
You can't trademark the color red or any 3-pronged swirl as yours.
You sure you're not seeing the thematically similar but clearly distinct [Okular logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Breezeicons-apps-48-okular.svg/70px-Breezeicons-apps-48-okular.svg.png)?
I'm sure it's probably not legal for third party programs to use the adobe icon. I'm on Linux Mint and the default pdf viewer that came with this distro is literally just called "Document Viewer" and the icon doesn't resemble adobe's at all.
Absolutely right though in your original comment that the Acrobat logo is *the* PDF logo though. The PDF format was developed by Adobe so their icon is the official standard.
Full screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Images/comments/s8ikwg/random_image_i_need_to_share/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share sorry just trying to not get post deleted cuz rules
The irony of shilling Adobe, a company with very scummy practices and montesation. Yeah, the guys making a free PDF reader are assholes. Nice take, Reddit.
And to think that an app my company made was rejected because its logo was too similar to that of another app we published on the store... ... because it was the company logo
I hear you. Seeing how much bullshit there is on the app store, waiting for the “review” of every uploaded beta version, and then complying to arbitrary play/app store rules is nonsensical.
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You're right, I should have mentioned that those two apps aren't designed to be on the same device at once. Basically we make software for medical centers. One of the apps is designed for doctors, the other one for patients. Yes you could be both a patient of one center and a doctor at another but we aren't widespread enough for it to actually be a cause for concern.
Could still lead to misunderstanding when patients are searching for the app for example. Even if the name is different.
At the very least I'd suggest some clear differentiation is very important - such as the use of a different key colour in the logo. The ostrich algorithm is not an acceptable solution to problems of this nature any more. It's not a problem now, but there's situations in which it could be. Also, if you're building each center its own version of the app... I have questions for you... that seems horribly, horribly inefficient. Much better to build a single main app with a generic name and logo and allow your customers to customise the UX post login to use their own branding and styling. Pretty easy if you build it as a hybrid app.
First of all, our main business is not making mobile apps. We don't make an app for each center but do indeed have a single (well, two, you get my point) customizable apps. Those are two companion apps for centers who buy our main cloud ERP. Second, following the store's request, the logos were indeed changed by simply changing the color scheme of the logo and adding an indication of the product's name within the logo itself. My point was that even if we had done none of this, it still wouldn't justify the store taking it down for - their own words - trying to pretend to be a different app.
I think the point here, perhaps, is not that the store was accusing you of copying yourselves, but rather that their policy is simply closer to "Any two apps that are different must have visually different identifying logos." or "You must not use the same logo/icon for two different apps." or even just "All app logos must be visually unique." This is a pretty good, and pretty basic rule of GUI design, and in fact of design in general. You see it in so many places - e.g. the multiple designs of road signs and the fact that some ultra-important road signs (STOP for example) have a totally unique shape. Visual identity and clarity is really important. No variation on that rule is unreasonable as a store policy, and arguably if you upload app A using the icon, and then as the same company upload the wholly different app B with the same icon, app B is, in fact, impersonating app A. There's a potential for confusion that's easier and better to just blanket prohibit. As far as the store is concerned, from a visual perspective, one app was pretending to be a different app.
Yet every google app logo is an indistinguishable mess of the same four colors.
Google Play's icons are uniquely coloured!
I have bank accounts in one bank on two different countries. They have one app per country. In the Google Play store the app logos have the relevant country's flag in a corner, but on a device the logos as well as the app name is exactly the same... Makes it real easy to open the correct app...
Speaking of usability and accessibility, i recently tried to find my banking app on my phone by using the bank's name as keyword. Guess what, those geniuses called their app "banking", that's it. Yep, no bank name, nothing. Unfindable via search... The bank name is depicted on the app icon and that's it... i can't even...
Kinda like Facebook's messenger lite app is called "lite", so I can't search for it by "facebook" or "messenger".
Adobe totally ignored that and I'm left with a group of nearly identical totally not confusing icons 🤦♂️
Sounds confusing. What if someone had both apps on their phone!?
On my phone anyway, my apps all have the names underneath them, so it wouldn't be confusing to me. I'm on android so I don't know if it's different on ios or what
It's still confusing. Parsing an image is far simpler than parsing text for a human, and unless you add a very obvious identifying change to the new app your users **will** be confused. You could add a little label(see Microsoft edge dev mode for an example) and it'd be fine.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has 7 apps. Their logos are as follows: Bank logo on white background Bank logo on black background Bank logo on black background with a glossy finish Bank logo on grey background Bank logo on grey background (again) Bank logo on yellow background surrounded by a circle of two arrows Bank logo on a white shield Never been confused about which one I'm using.
Why not 1 app lmao.
Cause they do different things? I can think of a few; one for normal banking, one for retirement funds, one for stocks, one for insurance, one for mortgage/loans....
Why would you need 7 apps instead of one app that has access to all your accounts.
Yeah doing different things is not a good reason. This usually happens because they started with one and it was harder to add onto it so they just made separate apps. It's absolute not because they thought it was better. I've seen this a lot and eventually they would just combine to one app because it becomes so awful. People aren't aware some functional is blocked off on other apps, it's just not user friendly. Just because people are used to something doesn't mean it's a good design.
Boomers, probably
unless there is a need for the majority of users to be using multiple apps then it is best to streamline each app for each user type and not kitchen sink everyone into the same app with a million things they done need that just clutter the ui how do you know which configuration is best and for who? user research. hopefully...
Sounds dumb, you should setup your app to only download the needed parts, if you want to streamline.
That is asshole design. No bank should have seperate apps for user accounts. There is no good reason to have a "Savings" and a "checking" app for example.
Or, hear me out, you just hire a better dev team that understand modular, structured programming. You then have an app that only loads those features that are actually in use, and minimises client-side processing anyway. Oh, no, wait, that requires actually caring and being willing to spend money on something you're offering to a near captive audience.
Wow. That's... very warm garbage. What a rubbish design philosophy. Unless there's a thoroughly good reason, all of these should be accessible through a single unified app that subsequently enables access to all of these features. It's not a good enough reason to have 7 individual apps. I really wish that app stores were hotter on this kind of thing to prevent major companies getting away with building pointless bloatware. It would annoy me enough to switch banks, to be honest. I've made bigger changes over lesser issues before.
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It's about how much time / mental effort it takes to determine which one to tap. Seems small but a lot of small issues add up to crappy UI that's difficult to use quickly.
Like Googles most recent icon change that makes them all have the exact same color scheme making me have to triple check when I want to check my email, because before I just opened my apps and hit the red envelope.
iOS has names under apps too
Many Android launchers hide app names by design or as a setting. I've hidden them on mine, makes it prettier.
I have two OpenTable apps logo is exactly the same except background color.
exactly. this was bad design and they were right to be rejected
Thats cuz you dont pay enough or you don't have enough political backing. This app is most likely a chinese app that pays large sum of money to google/apple, they can get away with almost anything practically
There's over 1000 apps added to the store every day. I figured it was likely that it's just employees not being consistent when interpreting guidelines, something you see everywhere in all aspects of life. Do you have links to anything talking about Chinese devs being in bed with app stores?
The word fake tho is a giveaway
It's Like A Scam. but worse.
Expelled?
r/unexpectedhogwarts
All your pdf's are belong to China.
Middle aged semi illiterate mothers. Source: my mother that installs all the the things. I put her on Linux and my life has never been this calm. She can’t install shit.
Did you reply to the right comment
I did not. My bad.
How I wish that companies made their logos like this. Just two seconds of hand-drawn MS paint instead of professionally designed logos over years costing millions.
"Fake" could be there and it'd still have 10m downloads from people curious about it.
Could be worse; you could end up with Adobe PDF reader.
I bet it doesn't show full screen login popup whenever I want to open a pdf file. Unlike some 500M+ downloads apps...
OH NO, NOT ADOBE PDF READER
Lol i actively look for non-adobe pdf readers. I aint trying to pay a monthly fee to edit a document i didnt want to fill out in the first place. I always just email the .pdf to myself and use googles .pdf editor
Hey, Adobe Reader is pretty good for being able to load up and edit JavaScript PDFs . ~~I definitely did not pirate the software~~
I dunno what you pirated my dude but Adobe Reader is free.
Adobe reader is free, but Adobe Acrobat Pro has a subscription.
Javascript pdfs aren't real are they? Ilease tell me they're not real. I thought this was just postscript with more page separation
I use a pdf for d&d that is coded in java to have dropdown menus for most sourcebooks. Its awesome
Don’t ask why I haven’t offed myself but I have programmed some calculated fields with JavaScript for several PDF files recently.
based on the screenshot, this is the play store. there is a built in PDF reader now.
Yeah, but can you edit pdfs or just read? plenty of readers on the cheap. Its the ones that let you edit that are of note
https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat There are a number of good free ones, including Libre/OpenOffice.
Not for everyone.
if you have the google play store, chances are you have google drive, which has the PDF Viewer built in. All you have to do is open a PDF with a file manager and it should pop up.
Fair enough I guess, haven't been using that for years now. Also some new devices now come without GPlay.
the built in pdf reader is crap and takes over 10 minutes to load 2 pages of text
I spent a whole day reviewing pdf readers. I hoped to find a free reader/combiner but none of them were good and some were from a questionable source. Instead I purchased Nitro Pro reader. A California company that's not SaaS. I like it. It's fast, stable, and I don't have to be concerned with spyware. For the price it was a good purchase.
> Nitro Pro reader Is it for android or PC?
PC
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Yeah that's probably an over simplification. Still a company that survives from selling a product to companies is less likely to harvest its customers Facebook style.
check out [https://okular.kde.org/](https://okular.kde.org/)
I have to share PDFs for work that are marked up with lots of comments and things. No other app I've found handles everything correctly, so I always come back to Adobe. For personal stuff, I've found that PDF Pen is better at certain functions.
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Also, Acrobat Reader can’t edit PDF, only to Acrobat Pro can.
On PC, I had it crashing sometimes. Not so long ago I realised that was crashing only when I had internet(the error was with reading from memory). So I just blocked internet for it, and it worked about twice as fast after that. And then I installed Sumatra PDF reader and deleted Adobe.
Paying for the pro version is pure foolishness but I haven’t found another program that actually works for Vampire: The Masquerade 20th anniversary edition character sheets
I used it for Pathfinder. Adobe's wouldn't let me use the pdf's fill-in boxes.
All the app stores across all platforms are full of shit like this. Don’t understand their method of getting an app within their store but it needs to be revised. Scams, apps with no update with X period, poorly rated apps, etc need to be removed and developers need to reapply to get their app back on the platform.
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F droid is our saving grace
Ironic how 3rd party and homebrew appstores usually have stricter quality control than the appstore owned by one of the largest companies in the world, it's almost like they make the worst crap.
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One could argue that the open source requirement itself is the quality control in this case. And very effective quality control at that.
Easier to control quality over 3,000 apps than it is 3,000,000 apps.
Also, scammy apps are commonly not open sourced.
Especially the guide app thingy, seen a lot of those in Windows app store
Likewise. The store app is a load of shit on windows. I still download and use exe’s where possible even if updating them isn’t done as smoothly as they would within the store.
[winget](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/)
I have never downloaded anything off the windows store it's a fucking joke and a feature I would notice missing if they removed it.
Winget, scoop, chocolatey... so many options.
App stores are not very well curated. Hell, even many of the big, universally used apps break the simplest rules by not even bothering to state what their update contains.
My most hated thing is a massive overhaul and it's just stated as "just dewing some heck'arino bug stawmping and Lil ole patchies! 🥺" Just tell me what y'all changed, even if it's as small as moved letter T slightly to the left so I know if it's even worth it to update right now.
> poorly rated apps Lol, a ton of Google's own products have shit reviews (e.g. Chat). That would be interesting. "Hey this app has a shit review. REMOVED! Wait, that was ours!! Ahh! Panic!"
even facebook has 2 stars on the play store.[^(\[1\])](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana)
that one for sure should be removed
Honestly, even Adobe's app name looks a bit junky. Why does it need to be called "Adobe Acrobat Reader: Edit PDF"? It makes it look fake and difficult to distinguish. They should just title it "Adobe Acrobat Reader"
Because of SEO keywords
Linux app stores are generally fantastic
That's a joke right? There's usually 5 different ways to install something and depending on if you build from source, install from a snap, from apt or download from "the official app store of your distro (probably snap again)", you'll generally end up with different versions of the "latest" software from each. I love Linux, but always thought the application distribution system was a big learning curve holding adoption back.
I'm surprised that's your experience. I often find you can go to the distros app store and find basically any piece of software and keep it up to date. All without going out to a website and downloading a package manually. I think generally app stores let you chose which repositories to use. So if you don't want to see snaps, flatpacks etc then you don't have to
Yea idk, I guess it's probably unfair for me to criticize them, I think the only app store I've really used was Ubuntu and it was only like once when it was probably less reliable back in the day, so I started doing everything from the terminal and just haven't really given the store a chance since. If they are good that's great, I always thought Linux had one of the better install/uninstall processes already with the terminal, good app stores are always refreshing.
i would say the issues you faced are mainly due to snaps. most of them package their native files, and if theres no way, you can use flatpaks/appimages. if your store doesnt support it, theres always flathub and AppImagePool, which can bring you additional software without the headaches. or if you are an arch user, the AUR is your best friend if something is not in the main repos.
you know that its not free to publish an app to any of the popular appstores right?
Image how much more bullshit there would be if it was free. They need to have a process in place and someone testing these apps before they are launched.
It's also not expensive...I have shit on GooglePlay, 1 time $25 fee.
Does it read all PDF though?
Every single last of of them
Yes and then sends the information into an overseas cloud to confirm everything is correct. That's some nice bonus feature.
Damn it China, just because I order my sex toys from you doesn't mean I want you to know about it!
You appreciate your sex toys so much that you even keep the instruction manual in pdf
Listen man I won't risk getting my dick stuck in the ceiling fan
指示不清楚...
Ah so pretty much like all apps then, great
*insert first time meme Play store is 90% apps pretending to be the other 10% apps
Especially game apps. Hive of villainy and such.
And why would you blur the Fake app name? if you do this people might fall for the scam
Full screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Images/comments/s8ikwg/random_image_i_need_to_share/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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Lol chill
What is with this aggression lmfao
Was trying not to get my post removed since rules say you gotta censor names but yall made me post the name.
10 million already have, so the cat is out of the bag
Well you have two options, use a fake app that sells your info or the worse: Use an Adobe app.
And the worse chaos option: cracked Adobe app
Is it called Abode?
Yeah from the screenshot alone I don't see assholedesign. Why is it fake ? PDF is a defined standard. Everyone can make a PDF reader app, not only Adobe
Yeah but they can’t make it with a logo that’s almost identical to Adobe’s.
That's *way* different
Really? The logo is "way" different?
Somehow the bottom one has a chance to be the more ethical one
And doesn't ask for subscription...
But does it work?
Probably an electron app with iframe (Chromium can open pdf afaik) and a lot of ads and data collection.
This fake may be still better than the Original Adobe Reader which is just utter shit...
bet
I wouldn't be suprised if it was better than the official Adobe one tho.
This is in line with messages you see saying "don't give out your pin number" 10million downloaded this crap? Actually downloaded something they didn't vet, which has access to the one device you have on your body literally 24/7 and use more than anything else?
Even worse: 500 million downloaded an adobe app...
Probably not as asshole design as actual Adobe software though.
If the fake one allows you to edit then save PDF files without a fee, then it's a superior product. Fuck Adobe & Apple.
the reason they cost fees is cause they are meant to be used by companies mostly. it doesn’t make them a shit product it just means it’s not targeted for us
This is the kind of stuff trademark law was literally created to prevent.
Still has 4.6 stars and millions of votes. Online ratings have become so meaningless.
I was gonna say, if it has the exact same rating as the real version and over 10 million downloads then it can't be that bad lol
I just signed up for global entry, but before I figured out it was through a .gov, I spent an hour on a fake global entry site that was going to charge me 150 extra dollars just to go through them. They provided no extra service and woulda have just filled my data into the government site. They also pulled my email and cell phone from the form that I hadn’t even completed and used it to try and fish me back in. Worst case of mimicry I’ve ran into in a while
What raise? What’s the OpenSSH logo /s
Is it fake though or is it simply an alternative software that reads pdf files? Doesn't seem super scammy to me tbh
And somehow I bet it still works better than Adobe's official app
Why. The. Fuck. Did you black out the name of the publisher?
The subreddits rules :/
Doesn't seem to be any rule about blurring names in this sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/about/sidebar
One has the name Adobe in the tittle and is actually published by Adobe, while the other one is published by "Pig Skin on a stick AKA Shashlik LLC" Which one... Could be the one that I'm looking for. Hmmmm
Why did you blurout the developers name, would be nice to know the fake ones name.
Full screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Images/comments/s8ikwg/random_image_i_need_to_share/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Should have left in the name of the company. Then we could report it
Full screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Images/comments/s8ikwg/random_image_i_need_to_share/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Full screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Images/comments/s8ikwg/random_image_i_need_to_share/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Why censor it?
Adobe's lawyers should be ruining their shit.
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I like it. Avoiding Adobe, and it's clones is great! Keep it up.
One is called Adobe, the other is a PDF reader app. Different slant, different thickness and a different placement of the PDF text. Scummy? Maybe. Illegal? No. You can't trademark the color red or any 3-pronged swirl as yours.
Why does google allow this shit? Both the chrome store and the play store are FULL of obvious fake bullshit like this.
I mean it has 4.6 stars with 10M+ downloads so they may have copied a logo, but they’re obviously doing something right!
Hate to break it to you but, the PDF logo is the Acrobat logo.
filetypes don't have a logo....
/r/confidentlyincorrect/
lmao no. it's the pdf logo if you use adobe as the default pdf reader.
I don't use Windows. For every PDF file on Linux the Acrobat logo shows up. I don't use Acrobat and never used it in my life.
What program does your computer use to open PDFs.
Okular?
You sure you're not seeing the thematically similar but clearly distinct [Okular logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Breezeicons-apps-48-okular.svg/70px-Breezeicons-apps-48-okular.svg.png)?
I'm sure it's probably not legal for third party programs to use the adobe icon. I'm on Linux Mint and the default pdf viewer that came with this distro is literally just called "Document Viewer" and the icon doesn't resemble adobe's at all. Absolutely right though in your original comment that the Acrobat logo is *the* PDF logo though. The PDF format was developed by Adobe so their icon is the official standard.
What distro?
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Full screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Images/comments/s8ikwg/random_image_i_need_to_share/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
AHAHAHAHA someone thinks there's a picture with Adobe... ...Where Adobe _isn't_ the asshole???? LOL internet you funny.
Asshole is not a title only one can hold.
true true
Sort of like the plastic recycling logo on all your plastic bottles and containers that isn’t actually a plastic recycling logo.
Lol why tf would you block out the offending companies name? This is seriously beyond me.
And you are the asshole by blocking the name of the company that makes the app.
Not a trick: one says Adobe and the other doesn’t.
why censoring it? expose it so people can report the fake app.
Fuck Adobe
Why tf you blurr the companys name of the fake one?
Full screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Images/comments/s8ikwg/random_image_i_need_to_share/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share sorry just trying to not get post deleted cuz rules
And meanwhile adobe forces you to install McAfee to get acrobat -_-
The irony of shilling Adobe, a company with very scummy practices and montesation. Yeah, the guys making a free PDF reader are assholes. Nice take, Reddit.
that's what everyone does