Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 16th Dec 2006 16:56 UTC, submitted by Governa
eWeek's Peter Coffee has compiled his idea of the 25 killer applications of all time. "Microsoft's Vista has widely inspired the 'Why do I need that?' question, which past 'killer applications' have answered in different ways for different platforms during three decades of personal computing."
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2006-08-09
Definitely.
) and Bittorrent were/are killer 'apps'. File sharing is a potential entertainment industry revenue killer (I'd say an opportunity, but they haven't figured that out yet), but also a great tool for universal access to information that "disappears" from websites.
It's embarrassing that P2P software was not mentioned.
And unlike operating systems, these *are* 'apps'.
Things like Napster (I was too young to have seen that come up
I mean, they may take all youtube and whatever sites off line to prevent people from watching, say, 9/11 videos, but there's no way to ever stop these from being spread as torrents, even with very limited bandwidth.
Great tool for democracy, right of information, and freedom of speech.