Platform Monetization: Dealing with High Adoption Barriers

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Very misleading article. No - platforms do not mean app market places. App market places are platforms - but not the other way round. Author is just trying to improve his offline SEO. Not worth Hackernews stature.

You're referring to the word "platform" as defined by certain academics. I'm referring to the term "platform" as defined by Marc Andreessen and Bill Gates - https://medium.com/breadcrumb/the-platform-matrix-all-platfo...

What about Microsoft enterprise offerigs, oracle, salesforce? To me they also offer platforms, but they tend to mostly sell their own products on those.

To work out monetization options, we need to use a very specific definition for the term "platform" - https://medium.com/breadcrumb/the-platform-matrix-all-platfo...

Essentially, it is applicable to businesses that create cross-side network effects between developers and users. This includes Salesforce, but wouldn't include businesses that create developer tools or infrastructure for instance.

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