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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Microsoft Windows, for example, has been the dominant platform for users, developers, and hardware makers for more than 25 years. As this happened, Windows lost its developer mojo, as developers shifted to mobile, and that doesn’t portend well for its long-run future. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media.