The Electronic AppWrapper  was the first commercial electronic software distribution catalog to collectively manage encryption and provide digital rights for apps and digital media(issue #3 was the app store originally demonstrated to Steve Jobs at NeXTWorld EXPO). While a Senior Editor at NeXTWORLD Magazine, Simson Garfinkel, rated The Electronic AppWrapper 4 3/4 Cubes (out of

The term «app» is a shortening of the term «application software». It has become very popular, and in 2010 was listed as «Word of the Year» by the American Dialect Society. In 2009, technology columnist David Pogue said that newer smartphones could be nicknamed «app phones» to distinguish them from earlier less-sophisticated smartphones. The official

App Store is a digital distribution platform, developed and maintained by Apple Inc., for mobile apps on iOS. The store allows users to browse and download applications that are developed with Apple’s iOS SDK. The apps can be downloaded to iOS devices; the iPhone smartphone, the iPod Touch handheld computer, the iPad tablet computer, and