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"Apps" is just our current Zeitgeist term for products. Facebook, Reddit, newspaper... are now "apps". You don't have to like it (I don't either), but just like
by addandsubtract 2y ago
"Apps" is just our current Zeitgeist term for products. Facebook, Reddit, newspaper... are now "apps". You don't have to like it (I don't either), but just like the term "meme" has evolved from an "animal/person with bold text on it" to mean any joke or popular concept, "app" has transcended the phone realm.
- zmgsabst 2y ago“Meme” predates the internet, with both animal/comic captions as a means of culture and popular jokes/concepts being examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
- Retr0id 2y ago> the term "meme" has evolved from an "animal/person with bold text on it" to mean any joke or popular concept It's actually the other way around, "meme" existed in the general sense for many years before internet-image-macro-memes became a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Dawkins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Dawkins
- floydnoel 2y agosure, let's take advice about words from the person who doesn't know the definition of the ones they are using.