Dang writes: > about Dropbox's YC application (which is what the word "app" meant back then) But Drew Houston himself writes in the reply "most apps are writ

Dang writes: > about Dropbox's YC application (which is what the word "app" meant back then) But Drew Houston himself writes in the reply "most apps are written as if the disk was local". So the word "app" could definitely mean a program running on your computer as well.