killer app
noun
: a computer application of such great value or popularity that it assures the success of the technology with which it is associated
broadly
: a feature or component that in itself makes something worth having or using
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The hope is that generative AI finally provides the killer app wearables have been searching for.
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Jackie Snow, Quartz, 22 May 2025
From Nintendo’s own first-party teams, the killer app is clearly Mario Kart World.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
In my view, that could come from a killer app — such as the iTunes store was for the iPod and VisiCalc was for PCs — that creates a new growth curve, thereby enabling companies to exceed investor expectations, noted my September op-ed in the Boston Globe.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Entrepreneurship is the secret sauce — the ‘killer app’ — of the American economy.
—Ted Tucker, National Review, 22 June 2025
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Jackie Snow, Quartz, 22 May 2025
From Nintendo’s own first-party teams, the killer app is clearly Mario Kart World.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
In my view, that could come from a killer app — such as the iTunes store was for the iPod and VisiCalc was for PCs — that creates a new growth curve, thereby enabling companies to exceed investor expectations, noted my September op-ed in the Boston Globe.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Entrepreneurship is the secret sauce — the ‘killer app’ — of the American economy.
—Ted Tucker, National Review, 22 June 2025
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“Killer app.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/killer%20app. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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