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To: Jerome who wrote (53875)10/5/2001 6:43:44 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Respond to of 70976
 
a "neat compact PC" is not an "app".

An app is an application, some job that users want to do repeatedly. A "killer app" is something they want to do that requires new hardware, or new underlying software. This sounds like a "dumb terminal", which allows the user to do fewer apps than they can now.