Mobile Opportunity: A quick history of software platforms: How we got here, and where we're going
An excellent article on software platforms, by Michael Mace. -- Rick Cogley |
From the article:
Intuit and Stanford recently asked me to give talks on computer platforms and what makes them successful. (By platforms I mean software with APIs that third party developers can write apps on top of; Windows and Macintosh are both platforms, as is Java.) Platforms are a hot topic in Silicon Valley these days. The success of the iPhone app store in mobile, and Facebook on the web, have forcefully reminded people that you can grow a tech business more quickly if you get third party developers to help you. Almost every tech company I work with is trying to expose some sort of API or platform offering in its products.- Much of what we do in collaboration is based on the software we run. Here's an excellent article by Michael Mace on software platforms. -- Rick Cogley - By Rick Cogley
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