Applications / Programs

[society]

Isn't an app a program? Why are they refer to as apps and not programs? Or am I wrong? How do they differ from each other?

[woofgang]

they don't. It used to be that apps were very small programs but Apple have started calling their big programs apps too.

[Answerprancer]

I despise the term and the way that the "sheeple" have embraced it.

[woofgang]

I despise people who use the term "sheeple"

[society]

So an app is a program...
I take it program is ancient and app is the in slang.

[Answerprancer]

Why is that Woofgang? ..are you a Woof in sheep's clothing? ;-)

[Answerprancer]

AFAIC an "app" is a "lite" version of what would normally be called a "programme".

[society]

As far as I'm concerned? lol

[Answerprancer]

...that's what I said! What's so funny? Eh? EH??

[society]

I'm not into texting or text-speaking, I googled 'AFAIC' to find out what it meant. (never had a mobile) So it was funny to me. :)

[Answerprancer]

It's also an internet abbreviation, I take it for granted that it's widely known - here are a few others I use:
IMO/IMHO (in my opinion/humble opinion) IFAIK (as far as I know) BTW (by the way). One other I use that is irritatingly UNDERLINED here by the AB swear filter is W(ignore this space)TF!

[society]

What The Funicular

[society]

was testing ^^^ lol

[Canary42]

From the early days of computer programming, code written for specific purposes (e.g. stock control) was known as an Application Program (to distinguish it from general operating system code known as Systems Programs).

Apple cottoned on to the fact that calling little Application Programs by the little name Apps it would seem to align it with their products. The rest is history.

[woofgang]

No ap I am a wolf all the way through.

[bazwillrun]

Its trendy to use the word App, just like all the twaaaats who have to be seen to be doing something on their devices on the trains and buses etc,.....most of them are actually doing nothing, looking at their screens for texts they havnt recieved, willing someone to call them so they can feel important. the phone has all sorts of ways to let them know if theres anything incoming.

Its my latest pastime on train journeys, stand up and look over peoples shoulders to see exactly what it is they arent doing on their device !

apps is just a trendy word for programs that fill your phone/device up with junk most people never use.

[joko]

yeah ... i feel soooo important when i look at my phone ... i get it out all the time, not because i am bored and there isn't much else to do, and not because there are lots more things to do on a phone than wait for a text - but to show off! ...
because i know that, although 99% of people also have a phone, i am totally convinced they are green with envy at me and my phone, because I am just pretending to use it, i just press things etc... which is a lot easier than actually using some of the many functions on it ...
i also look at others with raging jealousy ...because they are looking at their phone ... it makes me wish i was them and had their life ... because they are looking at their phone ...


what a ridiculous thing to say... i am amazed it even crossed your mind.

[Gromit]

The first instance of application being shortened to app in the popular media was about 15 years ago when programs such as Word or Photoshop became known as 'Killer Apps' meaning they were the best.

The iPhone was the first to call the icons on the homescreen apps. And they sold those through the app store. The orher smartphones adopted (stole) the lingo and it is now widely used and is the standard term.