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
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.
Even if they renamed it to “Now You Too Can Have Magical Long Fingers and Vision” it would be somewhat descriptive of what it does.
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
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.
From what I read Windows App does not support RDP and you need to use Remote Desktop Connection (not Remote Desktop App, which is a different thing)
Remote desktop users: Users connecting to remote desktops from the Remote Desktop app should use Remote Desktop Connection until support for this connection type is available in Windows App.
I am questioning whether it's true that Microsoft is attempting to implement more brand-based marketing, ecosystem lock-in, and a walled garden by rebranding Remote Desktop as a Windows App. Yes, I agree that everything now uses "app" in computer terminology; at least, it seems so. What if one day even the OS kernel is called an app too? Lol
*chefs kiss
Then: w4r3z, appz.
Recently the right column says AI all the way down.
Not sure if this fits this comm, but I hate that the act of buying a phone plan and inseting a sim card is now referred to as "activation".
"Activation" is the iPhone forced internet-setup thing, not the fact that you use wifi-only instead of cellular. 🤦♂️
Activating your SIM card is the best term.
I thought it was activation before the iPhone existed
Activation fees certainly did.
Perhaps it isn't exactly a new term, but I hate that term regardless. A smartphone can do many things without a cellular connection, a cell plan is not an "activation" but a feature upgrade.
mstsc?
