If everything is a platform—sites for networking, ride-sharing, dog-walking—does that mean nothing is a platform?
If all this feels a bit too abstract, it can help to compare these modern platforms with a more contained type of virtual infrastructure: chess. Like platforms, the game of chess lies behind its physical realization—you can remove the chess pieces and board, but still be able to continue any given game .
This linguistic analysis leads us to a striking revelation. Platforms are hard to identify not because they aren’t “real” or misapplied in common usage, but because they’re not the sort of thing that can be directly observed in the way an app or product functionality can be.
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