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Amphetamine can automatically kick in upon yours connecting to a specific Wi-Fi network and will keep your hard drives and solid state storage awake, too. It can auto-deactivate itself when your Mac’s battery drops below a set threshold and re-activate when you connect the Mac to power. Amphetamine is a free utilities and tools software developed by William Gustafson. The software keeps Mac computers turned on through user-specified triggers. Turning On Computers With Triggers. Amphetamine is created for users who want to keep their computers awake and open at all times through specified input methods. Amphetamine can keep your Mac, and optionally its display(s), awake through a super simple on/off switch, or automatically through easy-to-configure Triggers. Amphetamine is extremely powerful and includes advanced features for those who need them, yet remains intuitive and easy-to-use for those who don't need all of the bells and whistles.

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Apple has backtracked on threats to remove the popular utility app “Amphetamine” from the Mac App Store. According to the developer, Apple had threatened to remove the app over its name, saying that it violated guideline 1.4.3 related to “consumption of tobacco and vape products, illegal drugs, or excessive amounts of alcohol.”

For those unfamiliar, Amphetamine is a free application on the Mac App Store designed to prevent your Mac from going to sleep. It was released in 2014 and has been on the Mac App Store since then, but only this week did Apple contact Amphetamine creator William Gustafson with the accusation that the app violated the App Store guidelines.

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The guideline in full reads:

Apps that encourage consumption of tobacco and vape products, illegal drugs, or excessive amounts of alcohol are not permitted on the App Store. Apps that encourage minors to consume any of these substances will be rejected. Facilitating the sale of marijuana, tobacco, or controlled substances (except for licensed pharmacies) isn’t allowed.

Apple also added specific details:

“Your app appears to promote inappropriate use of controlled substances. Specifically, your app name and icon include references to controlled substances, pills.”

Apple said that if Gustafson did not change Amphetamine’s name and branding, the app would be removed from the Mac App Store on January 12. Gustafson quickly filed an appeal and was contacted by Apple to discuss the situation:

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On January 2nd, 2021, I received a call from Apple to discuss the results of my appeal. On that call, an Apple representative stated that Apple now recognizes that the word “amphetamine” and the pill icon are being used “metaphorically”, and in a “medical sense.”

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Ultimately, Apple backtracked on its stance and Amphetamine will be allowed to remain on the Mac App Store. Nonetheless, this is yet another instance of Apple’s inconsistent approach to applying its App Store guidelines. There are numerous other applications on the Mac App Store with references to both legal and illegal drugs, in many instances far more blatant than Amphetamine.

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You can read the full details of the situation on Gustafson’s GitHub page right here.

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