mouri-sunlight

not a vampire dont look into it

not a vampire don't look into it theyre lying


jeroknite
@jeroknite

I will call them "applications" or "programs", even when it's awkward.

I'm like 80% certain that the term "app" was popularized because of marketing, and I hate marketing terms. It's got that exact type of faux "trendy and snappy" rhythm to it that marketing terms have. The word disgusts me on a visceral level


mouri-sunlight
@mouri-sunlight

"run the app"? no, i will execute the object "tap the button to return to the app"? no, i will switch the focussed task window

i reserve all rights to be insufferable as i know enough of how these things work to say it correctly, and i WILL invoke that damn .NET IL binary package with the .NET VM thank you very much


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in reply to @wave's post:

Totally breaking out the fedora on this one. If you were used to Mac the world they have been apps for actually a long time. It comes from how NeXT applications ended in a .app file name. So for a subset of us it's been apps a lot longer than the iPhone lol.

i support your intentional ignorance

i looked it up and thought "this is stupid, just a terrible acronym, the number of letters didn't even match the words, what were people thinking?" then my brain half-erased the knowledge as a defense mechanism