Paper Apps

“Paper Apps” seems like an overly snobby and infantilizing term for something we already had a term for: Puzzle Books / Notebooks.

It does on the surface just seem like it's selling those sudoku and crossword puzzles you see at the grocery store checkout to people who aren't grandparents. But also, that's like comparing the modern board game scene to Monopoly and Candyland.

"Apps" is just our current Zeitgeist term for products. Facebook, Reddit, newspaper... are now "apps". You don't have to like it (I don't either), but just like the term "meme" has evolved from an "animal/person with bold text on it" to mean any joke or popular concept, "app" has transcended the phone realm.

“Meme” predates the internet, with both animal/comic captions as a means of culture and popular jokes/concepts being examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

> the term "meme" has evolved from an "animal/person with bold text on it" to mean any joke or popular concept

It's actually the other way around, "meme" existed in the general sense for many years before internet-image-macro-memes became a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Dawkins

sure, let's take advice about words from the person who doesn't know the definition of the ones they are using.

It's a satire about the world of app-everything we live in today. The notepad of the past is a non-software Notes app today

When I hear Paper Apps, I'm expecting something with a decent bit of complexity. Likely some number crunching, maybe needing an external source of RNG, using multiple pages. It says to me that this is something significantly more than what I would find in a puzzle book. If I open it up and it is a standard puzzle book, I would be disappointed.

If it makes it stand out from all the other puzzle books, then it's great marketing, isn't it?