Interestingly this is something I was thinking about the other day. I was trying to explain to my parents that they wanted to download and run a program on thei

Interestingly this is something I was thinking about the other day. I was trying to explain to my parents that they wanted to download and run a program on their Windows company - I called it an "app". They were confused as that is the term for things that you install on a smart phone. Like yourself, I'm not sure. It does seem a bit of a disservice to call something as complex as AutoCAD or Photoshop etc by the same term as a stupid fart app. But then, it is an accurate term - they are both applications, so I tend to use it as such.