A Platform Always Beats an Application

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This is an sentence that is found in every presentation of Tim O’Reilly (founder of O’Reilly Media and the person who coined the term Web 2.0).

Windows as a platform

Windows became a success because Microsoft opened up its win32 API to developers and developers created millions of applications that required windows to run.

Facebook as a platform

Facebook grew from being ‘just another social network” by opening up developer APIs. Developers can make use of the millions of members in Facebook by using the API.

Amazon Webservices

Amazon has got developer services for on demand storage (S3) and Processing (EC2). Every developer now has got access to an unlimited pool of storage and processing power which he can access by writing 10 lines of code.

As I write this, I am understanding some of my mistakes in approach to various businesses which can be corrected by thinking about a platform instead of an application.

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