Mathematical killer apps

1 · John Cook · Nov. 11, 2019, 4:16 p.m.
Summary
A killer app is an program so useful that people will buy a larger system just to use it. For example, the VisiCalc spreadsheet was a killer app for the Apple II, maybe the first program to be called a “killer app.” People would buy an Apple II just so they could run VisiCalc. Microsoft […]...