I was thinking 2009, which is when "app" - as a word with a widely yet precisely understood meaning - began taking off in the common vernacular. http://www.goo

I was thinking 2009, which is when "app" - as a word with a widely yet precisely understood meaning - began taking off in the common vernacular. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=app http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=app Using language as proxy, this looks like the point when the smartphones began turning into the most personal of personal computers in a really big way.