Comments on: The Enduring Mystique of the Killer App http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/15/the-enduring-myth-of-the-killer-app/ Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me Thu, 17 May 2012 21:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anshu Sharma http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/15/the-enduring-myth-of-the-killer-app/comment-page-1/#comment-69178 Anshu Sharma Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:21:20 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/15/the-enduring-myth-of-the-killer-app/#comment-69178 Killer App, by definition, is one that has great success in market place. Its an emergent property of the platform. Sometimes, you start with a killer app (Google Search & Ad Network) or music for iPod- and build out a platform that differentiates (Google's grid, Apple's 'personal device'). Others start with a platform (386 chipset, DOS, Windows, Internet) and then killer apps emerge. Is Teqlo a platform or an app? If its a platform, the apps will come later- and one (or more) will become the killer. Killer App, by definition, is one that has great success in market place. Its an emergent property of the platform. Sometimes, you start with a killer app (Google Search & Ad Network) or music for iPod- and build out a platform that differentiates (Google’s grid, Apple’s ‘personal device’). Others start with a platform (386 chipset, DOS, Windows, Internet) and then killer apps emerge.

Is Teqlo a platform or an app? If its a platform, the apps will come later- and one (or more) will become the killer.

]]> By: PaulSweeney http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/15/the-enduring-myth-of-the-killer-app/comment-page-1/#comment-69127 PaulSweeney Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:27:15 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2007/01/15/the-enduring-myth-of-the-killer-app/#comment-69127 Everybody gets asked this. I think what they are really saying is "I don't get it, why do I have to have this thing, and not some other thing". They are also saying, "yes, I see what it does, but I don't see your barriers to exit", and "I don't really understand network effects and how they work.... (but I love the word viral coz I don't waste money on marketing". (sic) Sometimes the age old corollary works well here "Its like a Google front page for your entire company apps, but we let you design the applications like widgets..."... Everybody gets asked this. I think what they are really saying is “I don’t get it, why do I have to have this thing, and not some other thing”. They are also saying, “yes, I see what it does, but I don’t see your barriers to exit”, and “I don’t really understand network effects and how they work…. (but I love the word viral coz I don’t waste money on marketing”. (sic) Sometimes the age old corollary works well here “Its like a Google front page for your entire company apps, but we let you design the applications like widgets…”…

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