App Store

Apple software bazaar

App Store is Apple's official digital marketplace for iPhone, iPad, and Mac applications, launched in 2008.

The name is sometimes treated as a generic term, though Apple has defended it as a trademark: The game shot to number one on the App Store. (Lowercase app store refers to any such platform generically.)

platform

Apple

Cupertino tech giant

  • iPhoneApple mobile device
  • iPadApple's tablet device
  • MacApple's computer line

iOS · macOS · iTunes · developers · publishers · submission · approval · rejection · SDK · APIs

Categories
Opposites
software distribution method

App Storesideloading

Installing software unofficially

direct download · piracy · file sharing · self-hosting · torrent

platform control

App Storejailbreaking

Unauthorized exit from custody

rooting · GitHub · SourceForge

software medium/era

App Storefloppy disk

Flexible magnetic storage medium

CD-ROM · physical media · shareware

Family

app, store, apps, application, applications, stores, stored, storing, storage

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G