the term start is used to refer computer program?
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Answer:
yes
Explanation:
The word goes back to the 80s as an abbreviation for application program - a program written for ordinary users, rather than tools written for other programmers or engineers. But it only appears in the compound form killer app- meaning an application so brilliant that it can support a new computer or operating system entirely by itself. (Incidentally, the first killer app was probably VisiCalc - the first really popular spreadsheet*. People went into Radio Shack asking if they could “buy a VisiCalc machine”.)
[* contrary to popular belief, VisiCalc wasn’t the first spreadsheet: the WRS system used internally at ICI in the 70s predates it.]
Later, when the Web started to become a Big Thing, people began to write complex interactive web applications, and these got abbreviated to web apps.
But the change really happened with the iPhone. All the programs you could download were applications, and “program store” sounded a bit dry, so the Apple designers came up with the name “App Store” (“application store” also sounding a bit dry and rather too long). Naturally, people started calling what they bought there apps, and naturally that became the norm for other smartphones too. Indeed, Google originally called their download program “Appstore” until Apple’s legal team sued them (in 2011).
We’re now at the point where so many people use phone apps that the word is starting to shift to mean any kind of application program, on any platform.
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