What is Killer App?
1.
stands for killer application. Used to describe a game/application that really makes a system/computer.
Halo was the killer app for the Xbox
2.
"An application that proves the usefulness of the underlying technologies"
Defined by Jawed Karem in the speech "YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth" held at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ACM Conference, Oct 21, 2006. (youtube/watch?v=nssfmTo7SZg)
A typical killer application:
- the first spreadsheet application
Killer apps in the internet domain:
- Wikipedia
- LiveJournal
- MySpace
- Flickr
- YouTube
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