Did Android Really Look Like BlackBerry Before the iPhone?

Re:Did Android Really Look Like BlackBerry Before the iPhone? by sahaj on Thursday October 27, 2011 @02:34AM (#3161885)

Anyone notice that Sergey uses the word "Apps" in the video. I find it incredible when people claim that Apple introduced the word App, and therefore the trademark "App Store" is valid. So glad that was squared away during the Amazon suit.

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Re:Did Android Really Look Like BlackBerry Before the iPhone? by myspy on Thursday October 27, 2011 @06:08AM (#3162345)

The term applications or apps is used on OS X too. And for a very long time.

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Re:Did Android Really Look Like BlackBerry Before the iPhone? by sbuk on Thursday October 27, 2011 @06:18AM (#3162364)

I recall referring to 'apps' when discussing MacPaint and Hypercard in the late 80s. Apple have used the 'apps' term for many years.

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Re:Did Android Really Look Like BlackBerry Before the iPhone? by thomholwerda on Thursday October 27, 2011 @06:38AM (#3162422)

It's actually a much older term than that.

http://www.osnews.com/story/24882/The_History_of_App_and_the...

[disclaimer: I'm the author of both the parent article as well as the article linked to in this comment]

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Re:Did Android Really Look Like BlackBerry Before the iPhone? by sbuk on Thursday October 27, 2011 @08:05AM (#3162614)

I'm sure it is, I wasn't suggesting otherwise; just concurring with the poster I replied to that Apple have used the term for a long time and that they certainly used the term long before OS X was released.

Programmer, by the way, referred to their wares as 'software' and 'programs' (hence the nomenclature), not just apps. Your observation that "marketing and legal" call the shots is trite. And wrong. The issue, as with everything, is accountants and money men.

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