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Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by Marazan on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:59PM (#47605024)
VisiCalc was the killer app.
Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by ianbutler on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @03:02PM (#47605053)
Ah got it. I wasn’t drawing that connection. Thanks
Re:The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Hav... by zozbot234 on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @06:08PM (#47607157)
VisiCalc was "the" killer app for early micros, but being able to edit a written text on screen and then print it out with letter-like quality was nothing to sneeze at, either. This was plausibly a key gain in efficiency for the service sector, perhaps comparable to the 10%~25% that's now being talked about re: LLM's (which is huge on a secular basis).