Killer Applications - The Death Of Killer Apps?

What's more, if e-mail and the graphical Web are the quintessential killer apps, some question how easily developers can in fact turn out new killer apps. Many of the purported killer apps for technologies did not materialize, and it may reveal something about how difficult it is to develop an application that unleashes a new technological paradigm. DSL and cable Internet, absent new capabilities that set them apart from other connectivity technologies, were merely incremental improvements over dial-up access. Few things are as ubiquitous and natural in people's daily lives as simple text messaging—a new medium for interpersonal communications. And massive content systems like the Web take extraordinary time and cost to develop. As a result, some observers believe that most of the "next" killer apps will be much more limited in scope and effect than were these classic innovations of the information age; businesses will require strategies to cope when there are no killer apps in the making.