Re: app vs. application

[margaret <miswit -at- gmail -dot- com>]

FYI: In Windows 8.1 documentation, Microsoft refers to all applications
(Start screen and desktop) as "apps." There is no distinction.

margaret


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- cytomedix -dot- com>wrote:

> What I want to know is, who gets the blame for popularizing "app"? Did
> Apple do that?
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> Mobile apps are always apps, not applications.
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> If you're documenting a program that is both a desktop application and a
> mobile app with the same interface, I'd default to app.  We have not had
> localization issues with the use of the word app.
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