On 03/03/2016 05:59 PM, Kip Warner wrote: > On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 11:34 -0800, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> I appreciate the intention, but I find this proposal misguided. App >> is just short for Application, and F-droid "Apps" are fine other than >> broader issues about the Android ecosystem. Nobody has a trademark on >> the term App, so it's *not* like "Kleenex". The problems with Apps in >> general are not about the term "App". > > Hey Aaron, > > I'm well aware that colloquially people believe "Apps" is simply a > contraction of "Application". I'm also a fan of F-Droid, but note that > their adoption of the term was long preceded by Google and Apple's > desired use. > > My concern also had nothing to do with a trademark. A trademark is > merely one method of influencing human thought towards a particular > product or service, but a corporation need not register a trademark to > do this. >
Sure, my point is that I don't think the associations people have with "App" are any worse than "Website" given that most websites people actually use are crappy, filled with ads, tracking, proprietary JavaScript… I don't think there's any bad *connotation* with the term "App" itself.
