Although there is a lot of documentation and hype around the new "App Management" service applicaiton. I don't understand what is the exact functionality of this new Service App.
The code I write does not execute on SharePoint... so the App doesn't really have to do anything in order to execute my code. The browser and web services do all the work.
The App I publish goes to App Catalog (which was already there in SP2010). So I don't think the catalog is managed by the service app either.
The app I write uses Web Services which were already there. and I don't think the service app is responsible for the web services either.
So what does it actually do??
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