CNN, “What to Make of the Apple-Amazon ‘App Store’ Feud”

March 22, 2011

Dan Sutter, “What to Make of the Apple-Amazon ‘App Store’ Feud” (CNN.com, Mar. 22, 2011)

“App” is a really old term. Like 1980s-old. Ben Zimmer, chairman of the new words committee for the American Dialect Society, which chose “app” of its word of the year in 2010, says he found a reference to computer apps that dates to 1985.

” ‘Killer apps’ back in the old days could refer to a spreadsheet program — that would be the app that would really drive people to buy some software,” he said.

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