Is a platform anything with an API now?

I moved this to a new topic, as it is a much bigger question.

Aside from awesome lists, I’ve got a difficult time using platform consistently across contexts.

For some folks platforms are just really big conceptual buckets that all of a related thing go into. It is a network service, a building, the people that work in said building, their training, their materials, the results… it is all of these things at once.

Whereas most of the time I’m talking about platform, I’m trying to run software on something.

Oh… quick aside!