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Re:The Post-Mac Interface by dustyrb on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:17PM (#10000855)
What's the difference between an app and a program? Author talks about older programs and newer apps; syntactically it would seem to me that any program would have several 'applications.' But that doesn't seem to be how the word is used since everything wants to be an app today.
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Re:The Post-Mac Interface by wodenokoto on Monday August 03, 2015 @11:49PM (#10001548)
I think app is just a trendy word for application (or computer program) possibly with the implication that it has a user interface.

So application are old apps and apps are new applications.

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