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On reddit at least it seems like everyone under a certain age doesn't use the term at all and just calls everything, including websites, an app.
by pixelpoet 3y ago
On reddit at least it seems like everyone under a certain age doesn't use the term at all and just calls everything, including websites, an app.
- hyperhopper 3y agoTo be fair, they aren't wrong. Web applications are applications. Who says native mobile applications are the only kind of applications? Though if you call the PNG file that's a menu for your restaurant an app, that's just wrong.
- anon____ 3y agoCan you apply that image file to help you order food? Then that's an application. And that's why they are wrong. If anything and everything can be called an app then the word lost its meaning.
- hyperhopper 3y agoApply the image file? Do you apply road signs?
- anon____ 3y agoYes and yes. I'm not a native English speaker, though. Definitions of the verb apply from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apply#Verb https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apply#Verb: 2. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case to apply funds to the repayment of a debt 3. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative We need to apply the skills we've learned to solve this problem
- dspillett 3y agoI can see their point. Even a static website can be seen as a very (very) simple multi-page app.
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- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoBack in the 80s, when 90% of software development consisted of using a database and the tooling provided by the database supplier, and creating a front end to enter/edit/view the database contents, the results were called "applications". In the 2020s, when 90% of software development consists of using a database, tooling supplied by various open source projects and some choice of web front- and backends to create a front end to enter/edit/view the database contents, the results are called "apps". plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose