killer app
Platform-selling program
A killer app is software so compelling that it drives adoption of the platform it runs on—the spreadsheet that made people buy personal computers, the game that sold the console.
The term has broadened to mean any breakthrough product or feature that transforms an industry or technology: Everyone's waiting for the killer app that makes VR mainstream.
- productivityOutput relative to input
- adoptionLegal family formation
- game-changerSomething transforming everything
- softwarePrograms directing computer operations
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
e-commerce · monetization · innovation · breakthrough · spreadsheet · disruption · market disruption · tipping point · competitive advantage · venture capital · venture funding · technology · revolutionary · next big thing · connectivity · market share · Silicon Valley · accessibility
killer appvaporware
Announced but undelivered software
flop · dud · also-ran · non-starter · market failure
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