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Yes, an app is to be treated as a disposable thing with a shelf life of a few years at best. But on the other hand, so are many "advanced" web apps that rely on
by m_eiman 4y ago
Yes, an app is to be treated as a disposable thing with a shelf life of a few years at best. But on the other hand, so are many "advanced" web apps that rely on vendor-specific implementations of specs that may or may not survive (not to mention HTTPS, certificates and their significance to browser behavior…).
If you want something to live, be prepared to keep it up to date with the platform it's running on - regardless of what platform that is. The most stable platform to target is likely Win32, specially with Wine.
I'd expect a simple HTML static document to continue working mostly as intended for a long time, but anything interactive and/or advanced is likely to bit rot IMHO.
- hddherman 4y ago> Yes, an app is to be treated as a disposable thing with a shelf life of a few years at best. The part that worries me is that a lot of physical items can only be configured via apps. That's effectively limiting the useful life of those as well, even if the hardware itself lasts for much longer.
- m_eiman 4y agoEven worse are the ones that rely on a cloud service somewhere, even keeping an old device around won’t help you there…
- whatarethembits 4y agoHence, only buy hardware products that retain full functionality without a companion app, where applicable. Although the trend it clearly in the direction of locking everything down with software unfortunately.
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