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The relevant difference is that a single entity doesn't control all the functionality and layers.
by narag 4y ago
The relevant difference is that a single entity doesn't control all the functionality and layers.
- seydor 4y agoIt is sad that we have 2 generations of people believing that falsehood HTTP literally runs on the application layer, as do email, IRC , gopher and all the old internet. Nowhere in the word "Application" is it implied that some CEO controls what porn people can view.
- joe_the_user 4y agoThe term "app" today implies something controlled by a single company. Whatever the "application layer" might have meant in days of yore, the term now derives from the "app store" and not other earlier usages. That's how language works. (and I'm old to remember those usages in the 90s and they were technical/unusual compared "something the user runs" even back then, jeesh).
- seydor 4y agomaybe that's how programmers, entrepreneurs and VCs call it, but most people i know said an app is a program they run on their phone/computer. I really don't get follow the "controlled by a company" part