But to be fair, it also underscores the lengths to which Apple, a company without a social network and notorious for wanting to control its platform, made strange bedfellows with Twitter.
In 2016, though, Cathy noticed something strange about the GOP platform.
With iOS 9, Apple is finally fixing one of the platform's strangest quirks: the keyboard will no longer appear to be all caps, all the time.
Another good program bites the dust, sadly, but never fear: someone will take the source code and branch it off interminably, creating 500 strange versions for multiple platforms.
This strange construction, part ship, part platform, is unique and lies at the heart of Russia's grand ambitions for the Arctic.
Nintendo is building on its strange but wonderful cardboard Labo platform with some sweet Mario Kart integration and a truly fabulous limited edition Switch with a faux-cardboard finish.
This offering is actually appealing, considering that Adobe's AIR platform has some strange UI bugs and quirks and tends to use a good amount of resources on computers.
Because our digital photographs are inherently social objects, and because mobile platforms now create a massive global audience for companies to directly provide tools and software to, digital pictures have transformed into a strange, fierce battleground where bigger platform giants test the limits of privacy, throw friendly punches at their rivals, and experiment with new business models.
And will anyone else give Tom Cruise the platform for quite such strange behaviour?
Ron Paul decided to run for Congress again, in 1996, telling a local paper, "My platform is not so strange anymore".
