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A Desktop Java "Killer Application"
...Here in the Java client department, we used to have to put up with the occasional harangue about the lack of a "killer application". The harangue would always begin in a patronizing tone, conceding that, oh yes, there are tens of thousands of desktop Java applications for all kinds of specialized tasks and specialized people. What we're not seeing out there, from our elevated perspective (they'd continue), is just one gigantically successful, widely used, everyone has just got to have it, killer application. The usual response to this kind of tirade was to tick off a list of applet games, or collaboration tools like QNext or Elluminate, or - and this was always the coup de grace - Limewire...