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Sony to Remove Playstation's Twitter (X) Integration on PS4, PS5

polygon.com

20 pointslinusg78914 comments

Apple allowing Twitter to completely rebrand with a new com bundle without forcing a new download from the app store was absolutely gross. I can't imagine a single other instance of this ever happening. Seeing that "X" magically pop up on my home screen was one of the most insanely anti-user things I've ever seen them do, not to mention setting a horrific precedent for security.

They changed the app name and icon. It's not that big of a deal.

> They changed the app name and icon. It's not that big of a deal.

That happens often. What does not is an entirely new com bundle being treated as the same app: https://apps.apple.com/ca/developer/x-corp/id296415947

This should have required a new App Store download. What's next? Is it open season now for CCP spyware shell corps to start buying up apps that get automatically replaced without user consent?

Apple also bent their app naming policy for them. Single letter app names are (were?) not allowed.

I find it funny x.com was one of the six original single letter domains and now it's the only single letter Apple App.

Not an app, but... it smacks of this: (has it been 9 years already? damn)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/10/15/u2-says...

I wonder what the usage of that feature looked like since I'd imagine a lot of players don't have a physical keyboard hooked up at all times, and X is still a largely text-based social network. Given how many hard r's I've heard gaming, maybe this will actually make X less vitriolic.

I was thinking of getting a PS5, this kind of confirms it.

For what it's worth Xbox also removed this earlier this year.

Not being a huge fan of the major social media networks, this is no big loss for me, but I always found the share button a bit infuriating. I sometimes do want to share some videos or screenshots, but through signal or whatsapp, and it's virtually impossible. Airdrop is probably not going to happen, but that's what I want, just send it to my phone!

Does it not end up in the Playstation app or whatever? At least on Xbox any captures end up in the app. Nintendo has a bit cumbersome system using QR codes but that also works.

I just checked the app, and now I see I can enable that, I don't think I saw it before, but probably didn't check for years. I'll have to check when I get home to see if it works, it doesn't look like it sees my existing ones

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38171483

Why has Nintendo not followed suit?

Nintendo is probably fine with letting the feature brick.

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