Showing posts with label platform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label platform. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"Products are Useless Without a Platform"

Photo"A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product," says Steve Yegge at Google. Steve Yegge, Google software engineer. 


He rants about that matter in an "internal memo" that accidentally got published externally. 
Google Platforms Rant  


It might make most sense for those of you who do coding. The larger issue, for those of us who do not code is the importance of platforms. Some of us might use the term ecosystems.  


Those of you who just like gossip will be amused as well. 

"Tokens" are the New "FLOPS," "MIPS" or "Gbps"

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