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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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[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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..

[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

not enough ascii in this comment tbh

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

markdown killed the ascii star

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Sorry, it's a regional dialect.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

“What region?”

“…Usenet.”

“I…RC.”

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

That is our word and you have no right to use it

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

When I was a kid, I thought it was pronounced WHERE-AZ.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

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..

I'm only surprised they didn't succeed.

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