parislemon: Prompts
90’s: Apps need to be downloaded and installed to your desktop. Careful what you install because it could break your computer
00’s: Don’t bother with an app – just go to this website. It doesn’t download anything to your computer so you can access it anywhere.
10’s: You take your phone everywhere – so install this great app.
Once upon a time the ‘apps’ and their implications were (relatively) well understood. Then we spent a decade teaching people to use the ‘web app’ metaphor. So if you think about it none of this is really a surprise after all. Next step…. sandboxing of native apps….
It’s hard to argue against stories like this and this because any nut job can accuse you of being anti-privacy or an apologist. These stories have some merit, but come on. At what point does this stop? We’re coming up on a year of these types of stories. Next up — BREAKING: Android and iOS…
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