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I know it's heartbreaking to accept, but there are some problems in the world that apps cannot help with.

Apple c. 2010 disagrees [0]. They registered "There's an app for that" as a trademark. I lost my phone in an Uber yesterday so now I have no apps.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2010/10/app-for-that/

Oops, isn't there an app to recover lost phones in Uber cars?

https://www.apple.com/icloud/find-my/

Finding and recovering are different things ;)

Roger. It's equally true that humans still hold the key to collaboration no matter how shitty the software tools try to be.

Why would anyone think otherwise? Why would it be heartbreaking?

Edit: The parent was sarcasm, I jumped to a conclusion because I see so much hatred for tech

That might have been sarcasm

Thank you

It was a sarcastic comment alluding to the caricature of the tech bros who see nails everywhere for their hi-tech hammers.

If you have infinite monkeys with type writers and sufficient time, other problems will seem insignificant.

If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

"cannot help with" seems very unlikely to me, especially if "apps" is not constrained to that which currently exists, but even if constrained.

Can you (or others) list a few examples?

I'm speaking in the present tense. Even if "apps" would be able to solve all our current problems in a hundred or a thousand years [1][2], I really don't have anything to say about that. I have no idea.

[1]: Which imo would be delusionally optimistic to believe in

[2]: And which would surely create new types of problems in the process

> Can you (or others) list a few examples?

For starters, the posted article illustrates one example.

"there are some problems in the world that apps cannot help with" --> "able to solve all our current problems"

I wonder if an app could help with this process that sits very deep in the stack, and has zillions of other services running on top of it.

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