No, Apple, you did not invent the word “App”
Jack Benny and Friends
“Music to Write Apps By”
1960, State Farm Insurance Records #L8OP0956
Yes, people were using “apps” as an abbreviation for “applications” at least 50 years ago… as they were being driven around town in model-T’s by their negro chauffeurs.
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September 28th, 2012 at 6:10 pm
I thought Benny drove a Maxwell. And his man’s name is Rochester.