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by dpark 2931 days ago
Appx package names seem almost entirely uninteresting and most consumers will never look at them. Why would anyone bother changing them?

Disclosure: Microsoft employee, but not on Groove (or anything related to appx packages for that matter)

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The thing is, they created the name when Zune was already dead lol
Doubt it. Even if the app wasn’t published previously, it likely descended from existing code that already carried the name.

I work on a codebase that still carries product names that stopped being meaningful almost a decade ago. No value in renaming across the codebase and it’d be expensive because of how much code has to be touched.