Apple sues Amazon over name App Store
Apple sues Amazon over name App Store
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- CanHasQBN0
It's not a "generic" term. It is only generic-sounding because Apple has made it so popular. Remember, Apple was the computer company that used the term "Applications" for it's software. Windows called it "Programs". Have you heard the term "app" before Apple came along?
The moment I heard "app" I thought of it as a "mini application", and that's what they were when they first came out on the iPhone.
No every company uses the word app. If they didn't, they'd just look dumb.
- Did Apple really come up with applications? Never heard thatabettertomorrow
- (No=Now)CanHasQBN
- well the file extension has been .app as long as i can remember.kingsteven
- You don't have to hear it, just look at a Mac and PC. Apple uses "Applications", PC uses "Programs".CanHasQBN
- are you seriously arguing that Apple invented the term applicaitons? That's just nuts.Boz
- I've used in the 80s the term applicaitions when visiting my mom's IT dept. in a bank that has nothing to do with Apple.. and yes.. people addressed those applications as apps even then.Boz
- and yes.. people addressed those applications as apps even then.Boz
- Apple took it from others.. they certainly didn't invent the term applications nor apps.Boz
- http://en.wikipedia.…Boz