{"id":110,"date":"2008-07-15T22:03:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T02:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/2008\/07\/15\/maybe-there-isnt-a-killer-app-for-the-iphone\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T22:03:59","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T02:03:59","slug":"maybe-there-isnt-a-killer-app-for-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/maybe-there-isnt-a-killer-app-for-the-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe there isn&#8217;t a killer app for the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the killer app for the iPhone?\u00a0 Most hardware platforms <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killer_application\">have had one<\/a>:\u00a0 the app so great you go buy the hardware just to get it.\u00a0\u00a0 But it occurred to me in a recent conversation:\u00a0 there might not be a killer app for the iPhone (and it might not need one).<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/appstore\/\">App Store<\/a>, Apple&#8217;s done the expected exceptional job of app distribution, <em>including<\/em> enabling small dollar payments.\u00a0 Can you name another mainstream system where you can seamlessly buy, install, and run $1 apps?\u00a0 It&#8217;s no surprise the first batch of apps are &#8220;narrow apps&#8221;, that do one specific thing, (in most cases) do that thing well, and don&#8217;t cost much.<\/p>\n<p>When combined with Springboard&#8217;s ability to customize the launch screen icon layout, it&#8217;s entirely possible that the &#8220;killer app&#8221; for each user is not a single distinct application, but a personalized selection of a dozen or so narrow apps chosen by that user.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the killer app for each user is a sort of &#8220;app mix tape&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the killer app for the iPhone?\u00a0 Most hardware platforms have had one:\u00a0 the app so great you go buy the hardware just to get it.\u00a0\u00a0 But it occurred to me in a recent conversation:\u00a0 there might not be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/maybe-there-isnt-a-killer-app-for-the-iphone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}