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I was disappointed by not finding a tutorial on how to create an app that no user could ever install successfully.

• phs318u 4y ago
  That's exactly what I thought this would be. How to install an app that _doesn't_ have the "X" in jiggle mode.
• Mordisquitos 4y ago
  Same here. It made me realise that un- is the wrong prefix for what we mean by uninstall. It should probably be de-, as in "I deinstalled the program" or "This app is deinstallable".
  • yardstick 4y ago
    This app is unremovable. Or maybe this app cannot be removed?
  • foldr 4y ago
    It’s not the wrong prefix. It’s the same ‘un’ you get in e.g. ‘unlock’ or ‘untie’. The ambiguity of words like ‘unlockable’ or ‘untieable’ is a standard exercise for morphological tree drawing in Linguistics 101 ([un [lock able]] or [[un lock] able]). The existence of structural ambiguities in words isn’t really any more disturbing or problematic than the existence of structural ambiguities in sentences (e.g. ‘John saw the man with a telescope’). (Technically, ‘unlockable’, ‘uninstallable’ etc. don’t exemplify pure structural ambiguities because the ‘un’ prefix is used in two different senses, but the two meanings do have different structures.)