Steve Jobs has been trying to popularize the word 'app' for several decades. At the very least since the 1989 launch of NeXTSTEP, an OS that used the word all o

Steve Jobs has been trying to popularize the word 'app' for several decades. At the very least since the 1989 launch of NeXTSTEP, an OS that used the word all over. For instance, watch this 1992 demo of NeXTSTEP 3.0: http://hivelogic.com/articles/classic-steve-jobs/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/classic-steve-jobs/ Because of its NeXTSTEP heritage, Mac OS X uses a lot of NeXTSTEP lingo, like 'app', 'dock' and 'plist'.