If you are an early adapter of a new platform that becomes popular, you can be one of the first to gain a lot of followers easily.
As the platform becomes more popular – particularly as OS X is now used on the iPhone too – and attacks move from malware to social engineering, it may be time for Mac users to pay more attention to the problem.
As the platform becomes more popular, we will be including mechanisms to highlight the best ideas and entrepreneurs, such as our triple-stage vetting mechanism". Sure, it can be daunting to think about making such an important presentation to investors in a matter of seconds.
These crowdsales of new cryptocurrencies give entrepreneurs access to funding from the crowd, and token buyers, in turn, get something akin to a form of equity in the network, since, if the platform becomes more popular, the price for their shares should rise.
If the platform created by Reliance/Jio becomes popular (which it should) it's conceivable that a large percentage of the 14M retailers and shopkeepers operating in India will migrate to the platform to gain access to products provided by Reliance.
As one application becomes popular, and therefore risky, new non-mainstream platforms are introduced.
Recently, embedded systems and SoC (systems-on-chip) platforms have become popular because of the rising demand for portable, low-power devices.
That's why Apple likely purchased TestFlight and why third-party beta platforms have become popular at all.
In recent years, imaging based, automated, non-invasive, and non-destructive high-throughput plant phenotyping platforms have become popular tools for plant biology, underpinning the field of plant phenomics.
