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Employees often are not particularly motivated by the company's bottom line.

It isn't hard to imagine a lower-level developer adding an entry like this to a substitution database because they were particularly frustrated with Trump. And it isn't hard to imagine a change like that flying under the radar, especially if it was done as part of a large number of changes.

That seems a much more plausible explanation to me than "phonetic overlap" or intentional direction from Apple's leadership.



Just so you're aware, you're responding to a reference to a crude animated TV show featuring children that swear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)


Nope, he was responding to my statement of this being done by an employee or a team without higher management order or approval.


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