I hate the term. It waters down true programmers and hard work. 9 year old rips off someone and makes game, "app". Actual software dev makes useful program using hard work and their own assets, "app".
What's the difference between an application and a program?
Historically, an app is something with very limited uses, and a program is more powerful.
Adobe PhotoShop is a program. Apple Photos is an app.
I'd say it gets a little different with command line utilities
maybe "utility" is the appropriate term here, but I'd call something like grep a program, not an application (again
"utility" also works).
To be sure, grep is extremely powerful, but its scope is limited.
The original Macintosh had an Applications folder. App is what I use to cut through tech speak for people at work because the shortcut is less daunting. They have apps on their phone. They must not be scary like Programs and Applications.
I miss when game had content patches instead of dlc
I think it’s spelled “A1” thanks to our Education Secretary
Make it stop!
The word app has been around forever, first appearing in the 1970s (according to some dictionaries I just googled). Pendulum swung towards “programs” and we have since swung back to the correct term.
It's worse if you have ever worked in food service. "App" is short for "appetizer".
::cries in very specific form of confusion::
Does your app have an app for its app?
The meme is good and all, but seeing it makes me feel irrationally annoyed because the first place I saw it was a rascist pleroma (fediverse software; mastodon but rasict) instance that had it embedded in the frontend. This just reminds me of it.
App is actually correct for all but the OS.
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