Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@_JCobb @siracusa Good question. First thought is that it should be allowed on a case-by-case basis where the name is more than an app."

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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jun 16

Early App Store Search Ads Fail: http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/06/16/early-app-store-search-ads-fail/ … #mjtsaiblog
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John Siracusa ‏@siracusa Jun 16

@mjtsai Schiller talked about this in The Talk Show live. Short version from memory: this is allowed and benefits small debts more than big.
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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai Jun 16

@siracusa Thanks for the info. Doesn’t make much sense to me, for developers or user experience.
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J Cobb ‏@_JCobb Jun 16

@mjtsai @siracusa What should happen if someone searches “twitter”? Not show an ad for Tweetbot because Twitter is an app name too?

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@_JCobb @siracusa Good question. First thought is that it should be allowed on a case-by-case basis where the name is more than an app.

6:34 PM - 16 Jun 2016

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