an app that causes consumers to purchase the platform it is exclusive for
an app that is so good that you buy the OS to go with it
A highly successful, popular and much-acclaimed computer application. Return to the top
Killer App is an industry for an application program that persuades the user to purchase the system on which the application runs.
A type of software that people urgently want to buy - e.g. when the first spreadsheets appeared, around 1980, this was the "killer app" that caused personal computer sales to boom.
(slang) A very powerful or useful application. Go to Top
Short for killer application, which is a way to express admiration for a particularly exciting or effective software program or feature.
An application that creates a mass market for an emerging technology. First used to describe VisiCalc and Lotus 1-2-3 in the early 1980s after it became evident that demand for the spreadsheet had been the catalyst for the sale of IBM PCs in the enterprise. Netscape was once described as the Internet’s killer app.
(Killer application) A program that is so obviously massively useful to someone that they will rush out and buy it immediately, and a computer to run it on.
A slang term for a new and popular software application that is widely accepted and purchased by computer users.
n. 1. An application of such popularity and widespread standardization that it fuels sales of the hardware platform or operating system for which it was written. See also application. 2. An application that supplants its competition. See also application.