The Risk of Being on Someone's Platform

The risk of being on some one else's platform should not be down played, because whoever is running the platform has a favorite. And so it's very easy to be building on a platform and then suddenly realize that you've been left in the dust. The term sherlock, of course, is interesting, because that was basly a search ap, i think, for mac, and at one point apple comes along with spotlight and makes it so that that ap is now sort of a feature of the platform. We have this exact same thing where we were, just a year into creating our ap directories, we got a lot of internal byan around a, this ecosystem is important. But