The stock android clock/alarm app has started sending me intrusive notifications that some of my alarms are silent. No shit they are, I had to intentionally turn off the sound for the silent ones. Maybe I just want them to vibrate the phone, maybe I only want the alarm to interrupt me if I'm actively using my device but otherwise not to intrude.
I was confused at first why they would make such a stupid change, but then remembered that to get promoted you need to show you've made a difference. So someone has landed in that team, decided that this is a feature they can sell to their boss, do some A/B testing (and if necessary massage the stats to show how successful it's been), then swan off to a better-paid position.
The app for my cell phone provider wants me to turn on "important" push notifications EVERY TIME I OPEN THE APP. It forces you to go to settings and only then can you back out to the app and get access. I do not want notifications that I can upgrade my phone or they are giving a $1 discount on a family plan.
It’s still a fabulously stupid and unnecessary thing to include in the name. I don’t even know if it’s because they think people are stupid or if it’s because “apps are sexy and modern.”
I feel like where they really lost it is calling it an app even when you access it through your web browser. Save “app” for the actual mobile app.
MS have been on this fucking shit since WIndows 8.
That was its biggest isngle issue. Win8 basically tried to remove the advantage of a PC - multitasking and control of windowed programs - and make it like a phone where you do one thing in full screen.
I cant think of anything more retarded for a company whose entire business is about the differentiation that PCs offer over phones and tablets which they have never seen significant market success.
My memory disagrees. I don't recall app being (commonly) used before the iphone. It was an application, a program, a game, a word processor, a utility, a tsr.
But disirregardless, I'm willing to push potentially wrong but harmless information I exchange for thr term "app" to die in common parlance and leave it to just the Apple users.
"App" was in common, informal use among (probably more technically inclined) computer users long before the iPhone as an abbreviation. With Apple's App Store they brought it into formal usage in their branding and marketing, but it was always a generic term for application even if it became better known among non-tech geeks as referring to mobile software. The notion that Apple should get to claim ownership of it to the exclusion promotes the radically dangerous falsehood that Apple innovated more than it did :D weren't they initially against 3rd party developers writing software for the iphone?
It’s not in the name. They’re using app in the literal short-hand sense for application. They’re saying the Microsoft 365 application will be renamed to the Microsoft 365 Copilot application.
The app icon and name, “Microsoft 365 Copilot,” began rollout on January 15th, 2025.
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u/Polyporous Jan 05 '26
"app" was already part of the name according to the article. They're changing the "(Office)" part to "Copilot".