What my view is of what he is trying to explain: You can do awesome stuff with their mathematical based tools. There are tools for statistics, conversions betw

What my view is of what he is trying to explain: You can do awesome stuff with their mathematical based tools. There are tools for statistics, conversions between units, calculation with dates & times, and a lot more. Look for yourself at http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/ http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/ Now, they also have the data. Like weather data, about media(movies/music), about languages, about media, about stock and also a lot more. But for developers there is a problem, you can't build apps with their platform. For example you can't really store or receive data, and there are more practical problems. So I think that they already solved the practical problems. Because they are developing software themselves this way. So for making it friendly for developers they only have to build some frontend for it.