rOzeclawz Follow 2d ago

what the fuck makes phone apps so cocky as to send me notifications telling me to use it. my grocery list app straight up went “you havent made a list in a while!” are you out of your fucking mind. you are a program. why are you speaking to me like youre my equal. i could replace you with a pen and the back of a receipt. idiot. i kill you now

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    1 month ago

    What sort of apps would need real-time running if not to send notifications? Like logging software?

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      1 month ago

      Playing music, viewing weather forecast at a glance, fitness tracking, that kind of stuff

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      1 month ago

      Calendar programs that send notifications, chat applications where you want instant notifications, email clients, package delivery ones where you’d be notified about deliveries, mental wellbeing apps that remind you to do things or to complete a journal entry or log, etc.

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        1 month ago

        But all of them are examples of apps needing to run in the background specifically to send notifications…

        What apps need to run in the background for other reasons than to send notifications?