It's no coincidence that MacWrite and MacPaint were released the same year as the Macintosh (128k); if I recall correctly, they were bundled with it to provide functionality to the hardware and for the Macintosh evangelists to show off to potential developers as canonical examples of Macintosh "human interface guidelines."

-Matt

Although I agree with Peter's list up to a point I believe that Internet Explorer should have been excluded from the killer apps list. It is the most unstable, insecure, dog piece of software ever...on any platform. iTunes, although a great piece of software, violates EVERYONES right to "fair use" with all the DRM built in and should be excluded simply because of this. Other wise it's a great piece of software. All the other software was a welcome addition to the mac platform and I can't even imagine working without my suite of adobe apps.

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Although I agree with Peter's list up to a point I believe that Internet Explorer should have been excluded from the killer apps list. It is the most unstable, insecure, dog piece of software ever...on any platform. iTunes, although a great piece of software, violates EVERYONES right to "fair use" with all the DRM built in and should be excluded simply because of this. Other wise it's a great piece of software. All the other software was a welcome addition to the mac platform and I can't even imagine working without my suite of adobe apps.

You seem to be confusing "killer app" with "great app". When people refer to "killer apps/products", they're talking about market success. These are by no means the 25 best apps or even the most influential. He even admits in the blurbs that some are inferior to the competitors of the time (see Windows 3).

So this is not a list of cool, useful or great products. It's a list of products that sold big (either themselves or accompanying products). Considered as such, I think it's pretty solid.

And you're also confusing iTunes with the iTunes Store. iTunes does not have any "built in" DRM.