On: Steve's Google Platform rant

[yarapavan]

So, there is a platform rule now -

A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.

[vogonj → yarapavan]

if you consider SMTP+IMAP/POP3 to be APIs, then this is a simple corollary to Zawinski's Law. the reduction is left as an exercise to the reader.