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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)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@hexbear.net
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[–] 121 points 3 years ago* (24 children)

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

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  • [–] 66 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 56 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    I regret to inform you it's joever

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    An application program is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task

    A howitzer is a projectile weapon designed to fire a specific projectile

    Rejoice, your paint guns are now all howitzers!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Thankfully the dictionaries get a little more specific. I do want an artillery capable paint gun though, that sounds rad

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I presented the above as a joke and I had faith that the definition of a howitzer wasn't that vague to begin with. angery

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    The Task Manager in Windows always had an "Applications" tab and a "Processes" tab, going back to Windows 98 at least. "Programs" was always too broad and restricted to being colloquial; the specific word was either application or executable.

    What's worth ranting about is whether people have stopped understanding "App" as short for something.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (8 children)

    The l33t w4r3z d00dz were calling applications 'appz' since at least the '90s. Then there was that brief period where Apple tried to claim "app store" was short for "apple store" so no one else could say it..

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  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Actually the proper nomenclature of the time was 'warez'.

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