Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now

Re:Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now by saurik on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:37PM (#34332528)

This author seems shocked by this turn of events--with websites trying to be app platforms with embedded web views of websites--as if they are a recent phenomenon... have we all forgotten the (thankfully pretty short) time 15 years ago where everything that mattered suddenly had to be a Facebook app?

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Re:Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now by dustbitying on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:55PM (#34333188)

I remember the thankfully now extinct, era of browser toolbar add-ons... yikes

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Re:Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now by paxys on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:16PM (#34333363)

And 15 years before that when most internet users would launch apps from an AOL portal.

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Re:Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now by aliqot on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @12:13AM (#34335241)

With browsers trying to obscure URLs now, we're also headed back to AOL keywords, along with the walled garden of our firewalls.

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