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		ne0phyte on Feb 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Developing a Raspberry PI app with Visual Studio Why is everything an App these days? I know an App as a small, simplified, specialized application, usually on a mobile device, that serves a single purpose. The Raspberry PI is basically a full computer so you can build and run everything and whatnot on it.

orangethirty on Feb 11, 2013 [–]

App is shorthand for application.

jlgreco on Feb 11, 2013 | [–]

Does that make /bin/ln an App?

ne0phyte on Feb 11, 2013 | | [–]

When you hear someone talking about apps/an app do you think of Apache, JBoss, KDevelop, Chromium, ... or rather Angry Birds and WhatsApp?

bitwize on Feb 11, 2013 | | [–]

"App" has been short for "application" since the DOS days (hence expressions like "killer app").

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