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Why is everything an App these days? I know an App as a small, simplified, specialized application, usually on a mobile device, that serves a single purpose.

Why is everything an App these days? I know an App as a small, simplified, specialized application, usually on a mobile device, that serves a single purpose. The Raspberry PI is basically a full computer so you can build and run everything and whatnot on it.

orangethirty 14y ago
App is shorthand for application.
- jlgreco 14y ago
  Does that make /bin/ln an App?
  - ne0phyte 14y ago
    When you hear someone talking about apps/an app do you think of Apache, JBoss, KDevelop, Chromium, ... or rather Angry Birds and WhatsApp?
    - bitwize 14y ago
      "App" has been short for "application" since the DOS days (hence expressions like "killer app").