Tony Fadell: “You only have the right to be a platform if you solve one application really well”
Tony Fadell argues that not everything should become a platform: a product earns the right to be a platform only after it solves a single application exceptionally well and attracts a large user base that supports an ecosystem. He uses the iPhone as an example—when it launched it was not a platform; the App Store, introduced a year later, helped it become one.
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