appification

[lcyi...@yahoo.com]

Dear all,
Please tell me what exactly the word "appification" means and where it comes from. Thank you very much!

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:17:22 -0800 (PST), lcyi...@yahoo.com wrote:

>Dear all,
> Please tell me what exactly the word "appification" means and where it comes from. Thank you very much!

I can tell you where it comes from. An exact definition might be more
difficult!

"App" is an abbreviation for "application". That is "application"
meaning an item of computer software, a computer program.

The word "app" is used mainly for software for handheld computing
devices such as iPads, iPhones and other smart phones and tablet
computers.

Last year here was a "workshop", a meeting, to discuss the "Appification
of the Web".
https://sites.google.com/site/appweb2012/

That page briefly mentions the use of "travel apps".

It says: "instead of searching for travel options on the Web, one can
directly use one of the popular travel apps".

The idea is that if you want to travel from A to B, instead of searching
the web for information about airplane, train, bus, etc, services
between A and B, you would use a program, an app, on your handheld
device that finds the information you need when you tell it your
starting and finishing points A and B.

So "appification" is the process of providing apps to do the things that
would otherwise be done manually.

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.english.usage)

[Don Phillipson]

<lcyi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aeb08b75-0115-49a8...@googlegroups.com...

> Dear all,
> Please tell me what exactly the word "appification" means and where it
> comes from.

This is either (1) an error (spelling mistake) or (2) a "nonce word"
i.e. a special coinage by the writer, meaning only in its original
context (not shown here.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

[Frederick Williams]

Don Phillipson wrote:
>
> <lcyi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:aeb08b75-0115-49a8...@googlegroups.com...
>
> > Dear all,
> > Please tell me what exactly the word "appification" means and where it
> > comes from.
>
> This is either (1) an error (spelling mistake) or (2) a "nonce word"
> i.e. a special coinage by the writer, meaning only in its original
> context (not shown here.)

But on the other hand it is also a word whose meaning one can guess at,
at least a person in the UK (who will hear of 'apps' quite often) can.

--
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by
this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting