Consumers' privacy concerns not backed by their actions
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Frank Slootweg wrote:
Snit wrote:
On 6/2/18 1:31 PM, nospam wrote:
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I'll stick to the one 90% of the population uses. More programs
available
yep
(no I won't say "apps", those are for phones),
app is short for application, a term that dates back at least to the
80s, probably even earlier
Right. It is the term Apple has used since AT LEAST the start of the Mac.
Who cares!? We're talking about the *real* world! (Just kidding!)
FWIW, I only first encountered the term for mobile devices, yes
Apples'. OTOH, 'applet' was known (to me) well before that time.
You only encountered it with mobile devices so you think that means the
term was not used... and more than that want to restrict how others use
the term!
Why?
https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/10/14/the-rise-of-the-app/
But, unlike smartphones and tablets, app isnıt new. According to the
OED?s historical entry for the word, app as a shortening of
application (as in application program) first found its way into
print in the 1980s. Back then it was mainly a colloquial term used in
computing circles: the OED?s early quotations for it come from such
computing trade publications as Info World and Dr. Dobbıs Journal. It
often appeared not by itself but as part of the phrase killer app,
meaning a software application which makes a new computing platform
desirable or necessary. Later, it became part of webapp, meaning an
application made available as a website, but as a word used on its
own it remained relatively uncommon.
Good to see you found where "application" has been in use for quite some
time in this context. Heck, if you go to 1984 with the Macintosh it was
the primary term used. Since then it has been often shortened to just
"app", much as "Macintosh" itself has been shortened to "Mac".
Huh? The discussion was not about the term 'application', but about
the term 'app'. IME, the term 'application' has been in use at least as
long as I'm in the_industry/computing, some 50 years.
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