Editing Killer application (section)

==Usage==
{{blockquote|One mark of a good computer is the appearance of a piece of software specifically written for that machine that does something that, for a while at least, can only be done on that machine.|[[Steven Levy]], 1985<ref name=levy198501>{{Cite magazine |last=Levy |first=Steven |date=January 1985 |title=The Life and Times of PC junior |url=https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-1985-01/page/n94/mode/2up/search/smell |magazine=Popular Computing |page=92 |access-date=2020-03-12}}</ref>}}

The earliest recorded use of the term "killer app" in print is in the May 24, 1988 issue of ''[[PC Week]]'': "Everybody has only one killer application. The secretary has a word processor. The manager has a spreadsheet."<ref>{{cite magazine | magazine=[[PC Week]] | title=PC Week | date=May 24, 1988 | volume=39 | issue=1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/103376|title=killer, n.|publisher=Oxford University Press|via=Oxford English Dictionary}}</ref>

The definition of "killer app" came up during the deposition of [[Bill Gates]] in the ''[[United States v. Microsoft Corp.]]'' [[antitrust]] case. He had written an email in which he described [[Internet Explorer]] as a killer app. In the questioning, he said that the term meant "a popular application," and did not connote an application that would fuel sales of a larger product or one that would supplant its competition, as the Microsoft Computer Dictionary defined it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeLBQCpCi9c&t=592|title=Bill Gates - Deposition Part 1 of 12|date=September 18, 2012|via=YouTube}}</ref>

Introducing the [[iPhone]] in 2007, [[Steve Jobs]] said that "the killer app is making calls".<ref name="Newton NYTimes">{{cite news |last1=Newton |first1=Cal |title=Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opinion/sunday/steve-jobs-never-wanted-us-to-use-our-iphones-like-this.html |website=New York Times |date=January 25, 2019 |access-date=June 27, 2020}}</ref> Reviewing the iPhone's first decade, David Pierce for ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' wrote that although Jobs prioritized a good experience making calls in the phone's development, other features of the phone soon became more important, such as its data connectivity and the later ability to install [[third-party software]].<ref name="Pierce iPhone">{{cite magazine |last1=Pierce |first1=David |title=Even Steve Jobs Didn't Predict the iPhone Decade |url=https://www.wired.com/2017/01/apple-iphone-10th-anniversary/ |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |access-date=June 27, 2020}}</ref>

The [[World Wide Web]] (through the [[web browser]]s [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]] and [[Netscape Navigator]]) is the killer app that popularized the [[Internet]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/08/business/business-technology-a-free-and-simple-computer-link.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm|title=BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; A Free and Simple Computer Link|first=John | last=Markoff|date=December 8, 1993|work=[[New York Times]]}}</ref> as is the [[music sharing]] program [[Napster]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/2002/05/the-day-the-napster-died/|title=The Day the Napster Died|author=Brad King|date=May 15, 2002|publisher=Wired}}</ref>