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Why? The whole point of the app is to be as convenient as possible. Heck, it's got better design than services like Netflix or Amazon when it comes to looking t
by zyxley 11y ago
Why? The whole point of the app is to be as convenient as possible. Heck, it's got better design than services like Netflix or Amazon when it comes to looking through TV shows.
- seiji 11y agoWell, it's like saying people download stuff "from bittorrent." It's like saying you download music from TCP. How people talk: "Where did you get this music?" "Oh, I got it from bittorrent." People aren't nuanced enough to know the difference between an indexing service, an application, a protocol, and various implementations or instances of all combinations thereof.
- sushid 11y agoBut there is/was an app called Bittorrent, right? I think that might add to the confusion for the typical layperson.
- userbinator 11y agoThere's also uTorrent, xTorrent, and a variety of others with names ending in *torrent. "I torrented it" was, and might still be, quite a common expression because of that. Probably for the same reason "I HTTP'd it" never became established because people were already using their browsers for regular downloads over HTTP.