"And so it’s sad to see scripting die out as the popular platforms for application development fail to support it. Instead of the personal control of the script

"And so it’s sad to see scripting die out as the popular platforms for application development fail to support it. Instead of the personal control of the script – I will take this information from that app, and put this part of it in that app – we have the corporate control of the API. This app maker and that app maker are BFFs, sign in here to let them share everything. After all, they know best." Given the author's background along with this paragraph, I'm going to go ahead and guess that he's referring to iOS.