Why I don't do apps

[Hawkmoon]

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-boots-major-android-app-developer-from-store-for-conducting-massive-ad-fraud/

It's safer to be a Luddite/dinosaur

[dogmush]

Meh, that is more of a problem for the advertisers then the person who's device has the app.

You are correct however that using a device that runs code opens you to the possibility of a malicious code attack. The more code you use, from different places, the greater the risk.

Since it's practically impossible to live in the US today without some kind of, or several kinds of, competing devices it falls on the user to be reasonably careful.  Nothing really new there.

I also have bad news: if you have a smart phone, you use apps. Everything on an android phone is an app.

[Fly320s]

If you have a computer, you use apps.   

Apps are just programs by a different name.  Chrome, Firefox, IE, etc., are all apps.

[Firethorn]

I also have bad news: if you have a smart phone, you use apps. Everything on an android phone is an app.

True, but we're less likely to be affected if we aren't downloading and running apps willy-nilly.

I've only installed like 5 apps.  Most of my usage is the apps that came preinstalled - chrome and gmail.  Amazon.

[Perd Hapley]

If you have a computer, you use apps.   

Apps are just programs by a different name.  Chrome, Firefox, IE, etc., are all apps.

Nerd correction: not all programs are application software. Operating systems and anti-virus programs, for example, are not apps. They just keep your system running.

[Ron]

In America you don’t do apps, apps do you.

[grampster]

I like my apps with a Rob Roy on the rocks.