How to Use killer app in a Sentence

killer app

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  • The whole world is still looking for the ‘killer app’ for mobile 5G.
    — PCMAG, 20 Sep. 2022
  • There is no clear killer app in sight for 5G mobile networks.
    — John McCormick, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2020
  • But Facebook and its VR rivals still lack a killer app that can help sell the concept.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
  • However, the Celtics’ killer app is having the league’s best tandem in Tatum and Jaylen Brown.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Obviously, the killer app to hook in there is Gmail, and that hasn't happened.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The Note10+ also has a fourth depth camera, which can be used for 3D-scanning (but still needs to find its killer app).
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Roboticists have learned that nurturance is the killer app.
    — David Freeman, NBC News, 31 Dec. 2017
  • The News Feed’s killer app has always been easy, viral outrage.
    — Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The Note 10+ also has a fourth depth camera, which can be used for 3-D-scanning (but still needs to find its killer app).
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Speaking of consumers, what will be the killer app that gets us all wanting to put these types of devices on our faces?
    — Joanna Stern, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • The search for a killer app Finding an impartial opinion on blockchain projects isn't easy.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
  • One day, somebody will find a use for it — a killer app that will make 5G phones indispensable.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
  • Like Facebook’s rise after the dot-com bubble burst, the killer app for Web3 may not have even been invented yet.
    — Adam Kovacevich, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • In search of the 'killer app' That magic trifecta isn't guaranteed.
    — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2017
  • The option to take a game on the go, or play when the TV is occupied, is a killer app feature that can convince players to buy a Switch version of a game.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Perhaps the next killer app will be a GPS for monetary policy.
    — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Live entertainment, and sports in particular, is the killer app of the media world these days.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2018
  • Yet to many true believers, skirting those rules is DeFi’s killer app.
    — Michael P. Regan, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Google Plex could have been a digital checking account killer app.
    — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Word processing, however, doesn't have a killer app yet.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2015
  • Why this matters: With few killer apps and even fewer flagship watches, Wear OS is in desperate need of a leader.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 1 May 2019
  • Close to 90% of that amount came from China, and was almost entirely driven by Douyin, the Chinese version of the company's killer app.
    — Sherisse Pham, CNN, 5 May 2020
  • However, the killer app has still alluded us, until now.
    — Michael Gale, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The default instant messaging system on iPhone is a killer app with no rival on Android.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Their killer app is usually said to be factoring large numbers, which are the key to modern encryption.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2018
  • As these networks spread, e-mail emerged as the killer app for bringing asynchronous communication to the office.
    — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Three years later, that killer app has turned into killer apps–cloud, edge, and high-performance computing workloads.
    — Matt Kimball, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Don't narrowly think about AR requiring a boost from some killer app like the summer-2016-craze Pokémon Go—though that couldn’t hurt and is certainly possible.
    — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
  • But the city that launched a thousand killer apps still has plenty of catching up to do with metropolises not known as nearly so innovative.
    — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The biggest letdown is there still doesn’t appear to be a killer app to take advantage of the Quest 3’s mixed reality capabilities.
    — Chris Velazco, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023

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