What Is a Killer Application?

A killer app is a jargon in the computer industry that refers to an application that intentionally or unintentionally makes you decide to buy the entire system it runs on.

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A killer app is a jargon in the computer industry that refers to an application that intentionally or unintentionally makes you decide to buy the entire system it runs on.

A killer app is a jargon in the computer industry that refers to an application that intentionally or unintentionally makes you decide to buy the entire system it runs on. A typical example of a killer app is a spreadsheet software program. It is the first program called VisiCalc and the second is Lotus 1-2-3. Spreadsheet applications have helped personal computers enter departmental and small businesses. Killer apps can refer to ordinary applications that have never appeared before, to special products that introduce a new type of application for the first time, or to any broadly appealing application.

When a new computer hardware product appears, such as a handheld computer, manufacturers will always provide or hope to induce someone to develop an application that they think will be a killer app to stimulate users to buy this new computer . In a recent ad, IBM said that the killer application e-commerce (a concept that is also an Internet product and service sold by IBM) is "an application spread across the Web that will make your life easier "Obviously, the web browser and the Internet server with which it communicates are the killer apps of the 1990s. ^[1]