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This is confusing because Mac apps literally end in that extension, and if I say Messages.app you would know what I mean. Also, if I say “dingus dot app” it co
by magoon 8y ago
This is confusing because Mac apps literally end in that extension, and if I say Messages.app you would know what I mean.
Also, if I say “dingus dot app” it confuses people because that’s not a mobile app, it’s a site or web app.
- askvictor 8y agoOld DOS executables (actually, commands) (which still run on Windows) ended in .com ; there was an overlap with the Internet when they were still quite common (command.com was how you started a command prompt on windows 95), and no-one seemed to get confused
- magoon 8y agoThis is a fair & fun point, however maybe a bit of a stretch to compare here; DOS binaries were almost all .EXE well into DOS 3.x, which was many generations before Windows 95. I would say the exception to that had been command.com