Okay... so you are upset because you were late (after the average person it would seem) to hearing the term in use. Fair enough.
But FYI... I was calling Photoshop an app before you even knew Photoshop existed.
I was well aware of the term at the same time as any other average Joe. Why would I care about that? Do you want a medal for using a term before it became the in thing to do? The point is that now people use it interchangeably with computer programs because of Apple. Whether or not it was used before that isn't being questioned at all, as I can guarantee that the majority of people who use it today use it only because of Apple's iPhone/iTouch. There would not be many people who associate it with anything other than that like you, because obviously not many people would have your specific background.
To me a program always has an .exe (or .com) extension. But I don't expect that many people call programs EXEs. How about us Windows users call programs a Prog? No, now I'm imagining 20 minute songs and hippies. Scrap that one.
Clearly your usage of the term has nothing at all to do with iPhones. But if I went up to someone on the street and asked them where they got the term "app", I'm betting it won't have anything to do with folder names or file extensions.
I understand why you don't mind, but the popularity of this term unfortunately has nothing to do with people like you using it in the badass computing era. It's the result of the era of people becoming more distant from computing and applying their limited technowledge and terminology to something else. Again, this doesn't apply to you. You can come to my house and call Photoshop an app any time you like. Not sure how you'd have any idea when I found out about Photoshop's existence though.
) since outside of a computer science class you rarely encounter single programs anymore, not really.
