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It's been 13 years of "no, you can't do in the phone's webbrowser the thing you can do in a PC's webbrowser, you need to install a fucking app". People just accepted it. The fuckers accepted it. (hexbear.net)

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[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 121 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

i have a deep and irrational hatred for the fact that some people call computer programs "apps" now of days

[-] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago

"Some people"? The operating systems themselves call them apps now.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

And it's really not that unreasonable. What the user thinks of as an app could be more than 1 program. It makes sense to put an abstraction between users and programs because lots of sophisticated software use separate programs that the end user doesn't care about, just the whole.

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't think anyone's saying we should only refer to each individual executable file. Just that 'apps' arbitrarily replaced the word 'program' with absolutely no change in definition to make it sound New and Marketable tm.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

What I call an app is a little thing I eat before a big thing.

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