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appification

noun

Etymology

From app + -ification.

Definitions

  1. The conversion of traditional programs, websites, etc. into small, self-contained apps…

    The conversion of traditional programs, websites, etc. into small, self-contained apps targeting mobile devices.

    • While appification makes the former Web-based tools and apps more accessible, and improves users' quality of life, […]
    • Our focus is on investigating the architecture-level decisions that are specific to the appification process.
    • Tubi TV exemplifies an app's effort to step into this long, complicated global evolution of mobile television (Goggin 2012), and as such, it is emblematic of why the appification of television […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for appification. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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