On: Apple fears the killer app

[jdavid]

killer apps on the iphone

* maps = google

* audio = pandora

both were launch apps, both made the iphone plausible, both, were not designed by apple.

[krschultz → jdavid]

Those are good apps. They are not paradigm shifting apps. When he is pointing to killer apps of the past, they literally changed the game in a way nobody saw coming before their launch.

[flyosity → krschultz]

Paradigm-shifting app for iPhone: Ocarina by Smule. Didn't break any rules and is easily the most innovative mobile application ever developed.

[threepointone → jdavid]

the google maps experience was designed by apple. pinch+zoom, gps mapping, etc.