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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

"Hey, wanna develop an app?"

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

An interesting way to misspell "subscription"

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, those words are still used by people in technical fields. It's the laypeople who use "app" for everything, and even if "app" didn't exist, they would still pick one generic word like "software" or "program" for everything since they don't know the difference between any of the words on the left side.

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is the difference between an application and a program?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

program tends to be the more general term while application tends to refer to a tool with a GUI