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Originally Posted by wodin
Well, at least not since Apple decided that "App Store" was better marketspeak than "Software Mart". |
To his defense, Jobs as been using the term app, short for applications WAY before the Iphone.
Here is a video of him at WWDC in 1997, using the term "app":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE
As far as the OP goes, I go with the trend here and say that it would be ridiculous for Google to try to replace Android with Chrome OS for mobile devices; there will be too much resistance from carriers, app developers and users to make it possible. Google has already spent BILLIONS of dollars developing Android and entered into complicated agreements with OEM concerning the platform that Google does nto have that freedom to imposing Chrome OS on them.