Mac App Store: What’s in a name?

Checking the Mac App Store charts for my own apps, I happened to notice an oddly-named app in the top ten list of Safari extensions in the United States: App for YouTube ℠. Who names their app App? That’s absurdly generic, like naming your child Child. Or Jeff Johnson. Also curious is the service mark symbol in the app name. The App Store allows developers to use a third-party trademark in an app name (see my own Homecoming for Mastodon) as long as the trademark appears at the end of the app name, in a phrase such as “for [trademark]” indicating the purpose of the app. However, the App Store does not require or encourage the use of a trademark symbol such as ℠ or ™ in app names. My Spidey Sense™ started tingling, so I decided to search the Mac App Store. The results were interesting. Among others, there’s App for YouTube, no suffix, App for YouTube ®, App for Youtube!, App for YouTube! », because an exclamation point was apparently not enough, App For YouTube ¡, for the Spanish…