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Offline Jope

Re: The Elusive Killer App
« on: July 21, 2009, 10:04:55 AM »
So.. You get right on that, and tell us when you're finished.

A killer app was important in the 80s, because back then people didn't have any hardware to run the killer app. It was easy to sell the machine running the killer app, because there was no installed base.

These days people have had computer hardware for several years, so it is going to take one hell of a killer app to get anyone to switch from what they've used for a long time.

A killer app by original definition means that people will go into the store and buy the computer by referring to it by "a microsoft word machine" or "a photoshop machine". I somehow don't see that happening in the 2000s, as the computer has evolved to become something akin to a kitchen appliance, not the magical tome of eternal knowledge it was in the 80s when this stuff was still new and amazing.