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It's been 13 years of "no, you can't do in the phone's webbrowser the thing you can do in a PC's webbrowser, you need to install a fucking app". People just accepted it. The fuckers accepted it.

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wombat [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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remember when “apps” were called programs?

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CarbonScored [any]@hexbear.net
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The modern push for PC ‘Apps’ are just PC ‘Secret Browser Windows’ because a good portion of apps nowadays are just webpages packaged with 30MB web engine.

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Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Discord, spotify and even my fucking graphics card driver, is a web app in a browser

The amd software at least has an option to browse with tabs etc… not that i want to.

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silent_water [she/her]@hexbear.net
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even my fucking graphics card driver, is a web app in a browser

wait what? what driver on what platform?

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RonPaulyShore [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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RIP apple’s program store

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Big_Bob [any]@hexbear.net
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I remember when they were called widgets and everybody googled how to delete them.

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