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  • Calls abroad: When dialing a number, always enter the country code first (e.g. +33 for France), otherwise the call will not be made (except number d ’emergency). And if you have activated the blocking of calls from Switzerland to abroad, communications to foreign numbers will also be blocked abroad. The blocking can be easily stopped in My Swisscom.
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6 days later

So please - if you’re going to use terms, you should at least know what you’re talking about! THE app - something so inexperienced. It is THE app because app is the abbreviation of application. And if inexperienced people do it wrong, that’s one thing, but not Swisscom!

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17 days later
a year later

@Boletus

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you.

I’d say 999 out of 1000 people say the app because that’s logical and sounds better than the app.

Duden.de also writes:

Grammar

the app; Genitive: the app, plural: the apps, rarely: the app; Genitive: des Apps, plural: the Apps

The app is not grammatically incorrect, but it is rarely written that way.

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