Mac App Store: What’s in a name again?

This is a loosely-based sequel to my May 16 blog post Mac App Store: What’s in a name? inspired by an app named App for YouTube ℠ with a symbol at the end. This blog post is inspired by an app named Chrome Browser Default. Released less than a month ago by an unknown developer, Chrome Browser Default has somehow become a top download in the United States Mac App Store, alongside well-known developers Amazon, WhatsApp/Facebook/Meta, and Microsoft: You might joke that this is possible because nobody uses the Mac App Store, and while the joke has a grain of truth, at least relative to the iOS App Store, my own apps are certainly not at the top the charts, so why this app in particular? I have a theory: Chrome Browser Default is the top search result for “Google Chrome” in the Mac App Store. Chrome itself is distributed as a direct download from Google, outside the Mac App Store. Notice also that the Chrome Browser Default app icon resembles the Google Chrome app icon: Apple’s App Review…