The new ‘killer app’: How AI is reinventing the phone
Artificial intelligence might well be the latest killer app for phones, but unlike previous killer apps, it might not be one that consumers are willing to pay for.
It’s called the “killer app”: the once-in-a-generation application that can change the way people do things, and change the device they do it on.
For the personal computer era, the killer app was the “visible calculator”, or VisiCalc, also known as the spreadsheet, which, as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs said, propelled the personal computer out of the hobbyist’s garage and into offices around the world.
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John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jdavidson@afr.com
