This article claims that "Super Monkey Ball" might have sold $3 million worth of software in a month. But that's not "killer", I guess.
The classic definition of "killer app" is "the app that, by itself, makes you buy the platform". But it's kind of hard to tell how well specific third-party apps are driving phone sales when the phones are selling approximately as fast as they can be made.
And, of course, the killer app on a Web-enabled phone will always tend to be making phone calls and using the web. If "more popular than MobileSafari" is the benchmark, it will be very, very hard to reach the benchmark.
Finally... one month? They say that good software takes ten years. One month is 0.83% of that time. Give the market some more months.
To be fair: it's one month from launch. The SDKs were in developers' hands much earlier. And the general details of the platform architecture were in public hands (via the work of the jailbreak folks) much earlier still.
To some extent, MobiltSafari is already the iPhone's killer app. Nothing else it does is really all that shockingly great. But a web browser isn't going to be killer for more than a smallish handful of people. It's not "killer" in the way that SMS texting was, for example. Will there be another? The jury hasn't come back yet.
SMS texting is a killer app but a web browser that is actually useful and productive on a small mobile screen is not? What color is the sky in your world?
But it's kind of hard to tell how well specific third-party apps are driving phone sales when the phones are selling approximately as fast as they can be made.
Well said. On a device that already plays music, is a phone, handles email and offers maps with a GPS, everything else is icing on the cake.
On this topic, the bloomberg app is great. I wish I could easily email links from it though.
This article claims that "Super Monkey Ball" might have sold $3 million worth of software in a month. But that's not "killer", I guess.
The classic definition of "killer app" is "the app that, by itself, makes you buy the platform". But it's kind of hard to tell how well specific third-party apps are driving phone sales when the phones are selling approximately as fast as they can be made.
And, of course, the killer app on a Web-enabled phone will always tend to be making phone calls and using the web. If "more popular than MobileSafari" is the benchmark, it will be very, very hard to reach the benchmark.
Finally... one month? They say that good software takes ten years. One month is 0.83% of that time. Give the market some more months.