Prometheus said:
Kramy said:
I've been calling my apps "apps" since long before Apple did. I think it was ~2005 when I renamed Program Files to Apps.
Hehe, I hate to tell you this, but Apple's been using the ".app" extension (analogous to the ".exe" of Microsoft Windows) since they launched Mac OS X.
That's where their usage of the term "apps" originates, as far as I'm aware. But I'm pretty sure I've heard it before then, even.
And I've been calling them apps for over a decade.
My point was that I think of all programs as "Apps". Do they really have a trademark on "App Store"?
Laurencevde said:
My problem with appstore: it's not a store. In a store, you have a shopkeeper that determines what's sold and what's not. We don't. Everyone's allowed to dump their PND's in there. That's more like a bazaar.
So, let's call it PNDazaar
I really hate names that are hard to pronounce and have no connection to actual words. Unless you know what they represent, and are fluent in the same language, they leave you scratching your head.
If I hadn't heard of PND files, I'd see that and think "PN Dazaar - wth?"
Pandora Bazaar, I might go for. Especially it's renamed Pandora BAZAAARR!!!! on April 1st and has that Spartaa guy's head in the corner shouting.
Just don't shorten the name into something really ugly like so many linux projects do.
Awakening said:
Prometheus said:
[quote name='Kramy' date='28 January 2010 - 11:40 PM' timestamp='1264722054' post='804876']
I've been calling my apps "apps" since long before Apple did. I think it was ~2005 when I renamed Program Files to Apps.
Hehe, I hate to tell you this, but Apple's been using the ".app" extension (analogous to the ".exe" of Microsoft Windows) since they launched Mac OS X.
That's where their usage of the term "apps" originates, as far as I'm aware. But I'm pretty sure I've heard it before then, even.
Programs have been called applications on Macs for as long as I know, I had a Preforma 630 (I think that's what it was called) waaaaaay back.
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I've never called my Apps "Applications", though.
See, I'm hip. Years ahead of apple!
WizardStan said:
Don't make me hit all three of you with a dictionary
Random related fact: I have a 3-volume dictionary in my bookcase. Those things are heavy. If you hit someone over the head with one of them, they'd probably get a concussion.
TrashyMG said:
The term App has never been a Mac Exclusive term.
http://en.wikipedia....cation_software.. Actually I remember hearing this term prob as early back for PC as 1989... Back in 1997 when I got my first CD burner I used to back up my downloads on CDs I labeled "Games Apps and Misc".
Good to know. I was probably influenced by those early DOS titles as well.. I have fond memories of Raptor.
