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rbrooks:
I use gunfreezone. I like it but it needs more local users to really be helpful.

GreyGeek:

--- Quote from: shooter on July 19, 2014, 09:39:23 PM --- whats a app?

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Assuming you are not jesting, an "app" is shorthand for "application".   An application is a software program that runs on a desktop or laptop computer on which an operating system resides.  An operating system, like Windows, Linux (I prefer Kubuntu, a Linux distro) or OS X actually runs the application when the user requests it, and handles the interface between the application and the hardware.  Some applications have a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and some are controlled using the keyboard in what is called a "terminal".

Before smartphones computer users usually referred to applications as "programs", in deference to the concept of programming, which is what software developers do.   When small form devices appeared, like iPad, iPhone and Android tablets and smartphones,  the programs developers wrote were called applications.  In order to avoid typing out that word it was reduces to "app" or "apps" and that name has taken over.

Gary:
Apps are making their way into PCs as well.

OnTheFly:

--- Quote from: Gary on July 23, 2014, 11:45:41 PM ---Apps are making their way into PCs as well.

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Apps have always been on PCs.  As GreyGeek stated, they were just called "programs" back in the day.  The difference between now and what we have traditionally seen in the past is that the PCs, laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc. are all being linked/integrated through similar programs which are now called "apps".

Fly

Gary:
Remember when Best Buy had 6 isles of computer programs for sale?   

An app is a little different than a program.  IMHO.  Many apps are free, most programs are fee based.   Most apps have advertising and secret snooping about our personal habits.   Don't think programs used to do so much data mining as apps do today. 

Apps tend to rely on processor power through a data link, and not usually done in your device.   Most programs tend to do projects in house. 

Are apps and programs the same thing?  Maybe. 

My wife went to a funeral out of state, drove herself.  I could watch, in real time, as she drove along the Interstate.   I could talk to her via walke talke app in her phone (free), without her answering the phone.  Turn in three blocks (she gets lost sometimes)   I never had programs help out in such ways.

I can open up a free app that tells me where all the convicted sexual predators live in my neighborhood.   I don't think Best Buy had that program. 

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