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We are calling websites "apps" now?
They kinda are
Only in the sense that most apps are just a slightly modified web site where they're able to track way more of how you're interacting with it and also scrape all the data on your phone...
No, I was talking in the sense that most websites are just JavaScript apps, rather than served HTML as Tim intended.
👍 thanks for the clarification
Sir Tim to us plebes.
You mean the idiot who advocated for DRM on the web? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions
Yes, that is Sir Tim.
Not without a honorable behavior.
"Sir" only means he was knighted. That's all.
Why not? Many websites are more complex than many desktop or mobile applications, so if a website does more than just render a blog or something, I think "app" qualified. Tiktok is certainly a web application, or webapp.