How the Unix philosophy gave us Web Apps instead of more SaaS products

Apps aren’t just micro softwares. They’re software for a purpose.

The tipping point was in May of 2011.

For the first time, the same number of people searched for app-as-software ending software’s decades-long reign as the popular term for the stuff we run on computing devices.

Program, application, software, applet, all replaced with a three-letter-word.

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone App Store in 2008, it not only…