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While I agree that the article title was linkbait, I think the author had a valid point in noting that mentioning that the app was a finalist in a big competition does help in vouching for the app's usefulness. This isn't something that Apple should be discouraging, and the fact that they do does make them seem, well, petty.

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The app wasn't a finalist. You can't enter an iPhone app in an Android competition. Logic like this is what makes people think Microsoft Office for Mac is as full featured as Microsoft Office on Windows. They're too very different products with different codebases and functionality that attempt to mimic some behaviour between each other. Have you seen the frustration of an Office:Mac user when they realize, for instance, that they can't do something simple like get Entourage to work with an Exchange server or get Office to connect to Sharepoint?

Is that relevant? The point I was making is that Apple should not be discouraging it regardless. Be that as it may, you make an interesting one. Are you saying that Microsoft should be discouraged from marketing Office for Mac as Microsoft Office? That does not seem like a reasonable position to take.

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