But but, my Amogus!
“This website would look better if you downlo-”
NO! YOU WILL FEED ME IDIOT FASCIST TAKES FROM MY LOCAL CITY SUBREDDIT ON MY MOBILE BROWSER, AND YOU ARE GONNA LOAD IT!
i have a deep and irrational hatred for the fact that some people call computer programs “apps” now of days
Dude, me too, so much. Also I was made to feel real dumb trying to help my fiance last night with M$'s new Office. It’s an app first of all, so if Windows 11 doesn’t know already what to do with it with a specific file type you have to find it, but dumbass Windows 11 doesn’t let you just easily search for apps when you do “open with”, because that would make sense. So okay, I’ll open the file in Power Point. Where’s Power Point? Oh, you have to open the Microdick 365 app first, okay, click on PowerPoint in there and… it opens a mother fucking browser page. PowerPoint doesn’t exist as a program anymore, it’s a fucking web app.
Why the fuck does anyone pay for Office now, it’s a terrible system, especially when so many better alternatives exist!
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!
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.
Thankfully the dictionaries get a little more specific. I do want an artillery capable paint gun though, that sounds rad
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.
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…
Never accepted it. Won’t accept it
This is objectively better than the app situation. I’d rather have to scroll horizontally than be forced to install battery-sucking spyware just for the few times I need to use your service.
