Most people don’t know what a phone app actually is.
That is 100% true
Exactly. Is it just a webpage served up with some native UI buttons to make it look more glossy? Are app permissions implemented as separate system users under POSIX? How many apps are written in languages/frameworks running from interpreters, and how many actually touch bare metal? Are app media that use Gallery permissions duplicating data or linking to it?
No one knows what an app is, the app development frameworks I learned 10 years ago are no longer relevant and have likely shifted to a whole new paradigm. If it looks perplexing to me, I can imagine it looks like magic to non-techies.
Web pages are remote apps that you interface with locally (exceptions)
Usually, they’re what should have just been a website.
Most people don’t know how a freaking toaster AKKSCHULLY works. Who cares? It’s of no consequence
Lmao, this is the normal curve meme, with Trump on the left, a lib on the center an a developer on the right.
I was thinking the same thing lol. “Do you mean like an apk or a pwa?”
Most people probably dont know what an android app bundle is
Im not sure how that would matter in any context
Yeah. What 45 said is technically a true statement… If it was said by a geek or a programmer. With him it’s always surface level.
But how does it even make sense? I would have said I was 99% confident he used two apps all the time over the years. First, ex-Twitter, and now his own social-network-which-shall-not-be-named.
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I know a few older people who have smartphones, and while they can use things like Twitter or Facebook on the phone, if you told them that you were installing an app, they wouldn’t know what you meant.
They’re the type of people who were never interested in computers, and used them as appliances, possibly never needing to install things themselves. As they moved to phones, they either get their kids or the shop to set them up.
They understand using Twitter on the phone, but don’t really understand the concept of how it works.
That sounds like most people around me, regardless of age.
This happens when the opposite side turns on the propaganda machine on that specific subject (which when Biden was a possibility wouldn’t make sense).
He’s old and has been for a while, and I’m all for kamala. Just interesting how that flaw was “overlooked” when it was convenient.
I know what they are! They’re useless things McDonalds tries to goad you into installing with promises of a free $3 burger so they can sell all your data to everyone who wants it because apps have a higher level of access to it than m.mcdonalds.zip or whatever their shitty website is.
And some of the ones on F-Droid are actually useful.
This is a perfect candidate for the gunius/idiot bell curve meme
Aren’t immigrants supposed to be using a phone app to contact Kamala and enter illegally in the us or something? If that’s the case, they should be hired to teach “most people” jow too install an app. I hear MacDonald’s have a great one.
“Ah man, I forgot my password.”
“What’s the hint?”
“‘What is tasty?’”
“Hmm… Interesting philosophical question there. What is tasty? Is a thing tasty on its own or is it merely how one perceives it? Can anything truly be considered tasty, in an objective way…?”
“Oh! I remember. Candy. Candy is tasty!”
Ask any person above the age of, say, 40 (I’m not looking this up, but in Western countries that should suffice to qualify for ‘most’ pople) what an app is, exactly. I wonder what the response will be.
Idk, but I think you’d have to go a lot higher have that. Like, your parents know what an app is. Maybe your grandparents don’t, but mine do. So I think it would basically have to be like people over 70 or something
So you’re saying, when Trump says “most people” he means "me " but has to make it sound like he’s not alone in any thinking ?
Lolol above 40? Look up when the first iPhone came out.
I think your comment says more about how young you are than how out of touch “old” people are.
Lol, 40 years old elder here. Last year, my college mandated me to create a new course on how to use a computer because most of our new students can’t figure out how to install a plugin. The young generation is way less tech-savvy than they think they are, trust me on this.
Yes, those who grew up with smartphones are lost, too.
