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There's some nuance there though, "killer app" is sometimes short for "application" in the sense of "use" not "program"[1]. When Steve Jobs said "the killer app
by blacksmith_tb 5y ago
There's some nuance there though, "killer app" is sometimes short for "application" in the sense of "use" not "program"[1]. When Steve Jobs said "the killer app is making calls." in the iPhone intro, he wasn't talking about the dialer app.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_application#Usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_application#Usage
- drewcoo 5y agoThat was his attempt to stretch and own the term. The term that had been credited instead of St. Jobs with Apple's success.
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoLater on the App Store could certainly be credited with Apple's success, but not during the iPhone intro, though? I think people had been saying "our killer app is X" (where X was not a piece of software but an approach to doing something) for quite a while before that.