Anatomy of a program

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Hello,
Consider an app on your cell phone. For example, a program that shows you the best driving route or a diet plan. Do these programs carry out all the instructions on your mobile phone or are they just an interface that connects to a remote server and processes and algorithms are executed there and the result is shown on your mobile phone?

Thank you.

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It varies.

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Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply.
Can you explain some scenarios?

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Well, for starters…

  • Is all of the information available locally?
  • Does it need to stay local?
  • Is the calculation involved especially taxing or something that should be handled globally?
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Hi,
Thank you so much for your reply.
How about a diet app?

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Well i’m not exactly a dietician or have knowledge of the features or calculations involved in such an app because I’ve never developed one. I can’t answer those 3 questions for an app I’m not designing or developing, and the needs of the program would depend on the answers.

In legal terms… Objection, calls for speculation.

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