I was in a computer store a few years ago watching a young guy trying to sell a tablet to an older woman. He said “the good news about this is that it can’t get viruses because it runs apps”.
everyone knows viruses are allergic to apps
Ill bet anything they laughed about that in the breakroom
I’d bet they believed it themselves.
If you assume that she will only install official apps, that they are sandboxed and Apple doesn’t allow viruses in App Store apps, then that statement seems fine to me.
Every networked computer has some risk of getting a viris of course.
I mean yeah like you can be a pedant about it but all in all its a statement that makes sense. Apps on both android and ios are very sandboxed, even if you go out of your way to install malware there’s very limited damage it can do, barring zerodays in the sandboxing itself.
Tztztz…didn’t he know that a full virus protection is only achieved when you run apps that run ads?
The top bit got me recently, I hadn’t needed to remote into my desktop in a while and searched “Remote” and “RDP” and found nothing. Eventually I found it was renamed to the windows app and finally logged in but was baffled as to why they would do that.
This is the dumbest rebranding ever. If I tried really hard to make it as dumb as possible, I’d still not be able to come up with such a horrendously bad idea.
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Like how many people were involved in this decision? Let’s just call it “computer program”.
They could have named it Window window but that might have been too descriptive
Marketing really has just ran away with everything. I wonder what they’ll rename the console as
Yep - ‘open with m365 copilot’ has such a ring to it. Why they threw out their decades recognisable office branding is beyond me
The App Box?
Worse than Twitter to X? At least windows app is loosely related to the original overall branding
It would be more like renaming twitter to internet website, which yes, despite everything, is worse than X.
internet.website is available to register but I checked a couple registrars and they all seem to have it as a premium domain that costs several thousand to register.
I use Remote Desktop it a lot, and was warned about the changing name beforehand. And yet when one day the old application disappeared from my dock, I had the same reaction. I thought company IT or a macOS update might’ve screwed me over.
I’m used to it now, but that was a strange day.
Let me start a team for my team in Teams.
Does the team for your team have a theme in Teams yet?
If you don’t know how to set up themes in Teams, you can ask Tim from the theme team on Teams.
Tim’s tin themed teen team.
Don’t get me started on the difference between a group and a Group…
You can probably add “website” to the list.
*chefs kiss
Then: w4r3z, appz.
Recently the right column says AI all the way down.
mstsc?
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I thought it was activation before the iPhone existed
Activation fees certainly did.
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You’re not even right. You are genuinely activating the SIM card and anyone around you paraphrasing to “activating a phone” is also correct, because nobody cares what other meaning you personally wish to ascribe to the task.
Activating your SIM card is the best term.
You understand that SIM cards aren’t actually active until they’re connected to the network for the first time, right?
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Why are you buying a phone plan if you’re not using the mobile network?
I know one person who does this. It’s simple: apple discontinued the ipod touch. He had no other choice than to get an iphone without a sim
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Aha, okay, much clearer what you meant now. Yeah, they surely get a kickback for each new subscription.
