Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Adding "App" to Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing

[Aaron Wolf]

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.