Hmm back in the day, an "app" was native software on Mac OS X, and these days I still call "Safari.app" an app. It does have a ".app" extension, after all. I th

Hmm back in the day, an "app" was native software on Mac OS X, and these days I still call "Safari.app" an app. It does have a ".app" extension, after all. I think this is the definition that was the predecessor to "native software that typically runs on a smartphone, and most commonly the iPhone."