Well, as we saw with iOS, inconsistent policies and favouritism don't necessarily kill a platform. I think this is a big deal because the law of demand is a bi

Well, as we saw with iOS, inconsistent policies and favouritism don't necessarily kill a platform. I think this is a big deal because the law of demand is a big deal. What the Facebook/Heroku partnership means is that if I'm some 19 year old with a cool idea, I don't need money or experience in hosting, I just have to write the code to do it. Calling that "modernising" is missing the point entirely. To return to the iOS analogy, there were a lot of people who said "well, yeah, so Apple made an integrated platform for developing and selling software - but what does that get us that we didn't have before?" The answer to that question depends on whether you consider $1.7 billion in revenue novel or not.