More Killer App Crap

from the yeah,-sure,-whatever-you-say dept

A short little article about a company that is creating a system for wireless video messaging (as if anyone needs that). The best part, though is the quote from the CEO explaining why this is the "killer app" for wireless: "The reason why multimedia messaging is going to be the first killer application is simply because people want to share the moments with others and create own content to their video messages." Translation: we're a killer app because we think it's kinda cool, so of course everyone else definitely wants this sorta useless technology we've come up with. I'm sure the technology is cool, but don't claim it's the "killer app" until you have millions of customers banging down your door demanding it.
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  1. identicon
    CYnic, 10 Apr 2001 @ 12:34am

    Killer App

    The one thing you can be sure of is that the killerapp for wireless (if there is one) willb e something entirely unexpected and not be hyped by anyone at all untol it takes off.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    None, 10 Apr 2001 @ 7:55am

    What people want

    The article was too short to be able to say anything useful about the product, but if it’s cheap and intuitive it might actually sell. The article below documents peoples desire to communicate with one another. Content is not king

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    None, 10 Apr 2001 @ 7:56am

    What people want

    The article was too short to be able to say anything useful about the product, but if it’s cheap and intuitive it might actually sell. The article below documents peoples desire to communicate with one another.

    Content is not king

    link to this | view in thread ]


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