The "hm" is frustration/resignation about the constant pressure to dumb everything down... Resulting in everything being worse. There was a time when you had

The "hm" is frustration/resignation about the constant pressure to dumb everything down... Resulting in everything being worse. There was a time when you had to type the "http"... (You know, to distinguish from gopher://!) I was happy to type that in, because it informed my mental model of what would happen when I pushed enter: My machine would request that resource from this host. The request would be in the form specified by that protocol, as would be the response. In my mind, a URL like https://voice-memos.appspot.com/ https://voice-memos.appspot.com/ represents a remote resource. Specifically, a resource in appspot's domain... There are plenty of ways they could have addressed these local apps differently. localapp://com.appspot.voice-memos https://voice-memos.appspot.com.localhost https://voice-memos.appspot.com.localhost about:apps/voice-memos [Some Apps button on the toolbar that shows a list of those which are installed locally]