A distributed application, or dapp, shares some of the same ideals as the rest of the EVM protocol: the promise immutability. Dapps are composed of smart contracts that, as noted many times in this book, are executed by all nodes on the Ethereum network at approximately the same time.
Dapps in practice are like universally available web services running on the EVM, but made accessible to users via a normal HTML/CSS/JavaScript front end that they can access through their web browser or a smartphone application, ...
