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The killer app for smartphones is being a phone.
by alach11 3y ago
The killer app for smartphones is being a phone.
- HenriTEL 3y agoTrue. The Iphone is an Ipod Touch with a sim card.
- ericpauley 3y agoThe iPhone predates the iPod Touch.
- HenriTEL 3y agoI know, but not by much, they were both announced in 2007.
- andybak 3y agoIf you mean voice calls then I disagree. They seem to becoming less important every year.
- adamsmith143 3y agoWhat percentage of people worldwide use smartphones with no voice service at all? Including voip.
- andybak 3y agoThat's beside the point. You can have voice calls and choose not to use them very often. I'm talking about actual usage. My personal observation is that usage of voice calls is declining - especially among the young.
- staticman2 3y agoYou still want a way to make voice calls in case you need to contact emergency services, no?
- andybak 3y agoAt no point did I say "nobody ever makes voice calls any more".
- staticman2 3y agoThe point being the option to call emergency services still makes phone software the killer app for smartphones.
- andybak 3y ago"Calling emergency services is the killer app for phones" - yes. "Calling emergency services is the killer app for smartphones" - no. "Killer app " implies that this is the reason people buy them. If this statement was true then people would buy cheap feature phones. It's worth repeating the original statement here: > smartphones didn't have "a" killer app per sè I don't think, but they became part of everyone's daily lives in a really short timeframe. [...] to which alach11 replied: > The killer app for smartphones is being a phone.
- zild3d 3y agothat wasn't the reason to get a smartphone over a phone. First killer app was email