These features allow developers to make killer apps that apple consumers are willing to pay for.
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Sherman argues it has two killer apps that will eventually draw the public in.
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What are the killer apps that will make us all feel we need to have an iWatch?
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What was needed to follow up the new technologies was killer apps for each to show their potential.
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Its 64 partners talk incessantly about killer apps: Web services that will create whole new categories and--ostensibly--reap huge returns.
Trouble is, most of those services are already available on Web phones and have hardly proven to be killer apps.
Niall Ferguson, the New York University historian, argues that emerging markets are succeeding by downloading the "killer apps" of Western civilization.
Its 64 partners talk incessantly about killer apps: Web services that will create whole new categories and--it is hoped--reap huge returns.
As I sit here thinking of how nice it is, my mind reflects on the history and quality of killer apps.
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It went on to make billions by using features like AdWords and turning killer apps like Google Maps into subtle ad platforms.
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To learn more about his upcoming book, The New Killer Apps: How Incumbents Can Beat Startups, coauthored with Paul B.
Or, taking an optimistic perspective, the driverless car demonstrates the kind of game-changing killer apps that are now possible in almost any industry.
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The Google car is nothing more than a mashup of widely available technological innovations, and similarly bold killer apps will upend every information-intensive industry.
They focus on the killer apps that can rewrite the rules of a company or industry, rather than just looking for incrementally faster, better, and cheaper change.
Man, if Microsoft can get its act together and horizontally integrate the best of its killer apps and services then the rest of the industry had better watch out.
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And without the solid promise of a compelling product, the software developers that Apple will need to make the killer apps will spend their time on other, more fruitful problems.
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But, as Kodak, Blockbuster, Borders and scores of other former market leaders have learned, incremental thinking can leave huge openings for bolder companies willing to pursue new killer apps like Google.
Indeed, future smartphones and even lower-end feature phones will likely become the dominant mobile platforms with which we check the contacts and calendars that were the killer apps of the original Palm Pilot.
The most important question for companies like Palm and Psion isn't the cost of the infrastructure, but "how to get those killer apps out on the market in a friendly way, " Yankowski said.
Over the last twenty years, once-dominant companies (think AOL, HP, and even Microsoft) rise and fall based more on new killer apps than the heavy thumb of regulators pressing ineptly on the scales of justice.
With abundant communications and abundant power, they argue, entrepreneurs will be inspired to invent the next generation of killer apps, jump-starting the economy and catapulting the U.S. back to the top in key measures of economic and technological progress.
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As someone always on the prowl for killer foodie mobile apps, F.
It brings together phenomenal power and functionality, marked out by the fact it comes with two essential BBC apps and a killer EA Games title in Sims Freeplay.
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"We heard immediately from Google Apps for Business users that this was a killer feature for working with local teams across the world, " the company says.
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