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It's "commonplace" after Apple started using it.
by mmuro 14y ago
It's "commonplace" after Apple started using it.
- Karunamon 14y agoOh please. An app store is a generic name of a place where you buy apps. And "app" has been around long before there was such a thing as an iAnything. There aren't really a lot of synonyms for a place where you buy things. Store and marketplace are the two obvious ones.
- mistercow 14y ago>Store and marketplace are the two obvious ones. Well, and "shop" and "mart". Still, even if we branch out to a few less obvious ones, we're looking at a few dozen possible names at most, and some of them are ridiculous like "The Software Application Emporium", and oh man hold on I have to run over to the trademark office real quick.
- cocoalovethax 14y agoThe term app was first used by Apple since at least the early 80's and even Mac OS X and iOS(and NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP) use".app" as the extension for applications. Steve Jobs was using the term "app" long, long before it was popular.
- nailer 14y agoI'm sure Click n' Run, Handango, and other places where apps were sold for a particular platform were called 'app stores' at some point.
- jlgreco 14y ago"Escalator" became commonplace after Otis started using it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalator#Loss_of_trademark_rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalator#Loss_of_trademark_rig...
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