diff --git a/ionic/components/app/app.js b/ionic/components/app/app.js
index e9116e9f5d..016ee872fc 100644
--- a/ionic/components/app/app.js
+++ b/ionic/components/app/app.js
@@ -120,20 +120,12 @@ export class IonicApp {
     return this._rtl;
   }
 
-  lang(val) {
-    if (arguments.length) {
-      this._lang = val;
-    }
-    return this._lang;
-  }
-
 }
 
-function initApp(window, document) {
+function initApp(window, document, config) {
   // create the base IonicApp
   let app = new IonicApp();
   app.isRTL(document.documentElement.getAttribute('dir') == 'rtl');
-  app.lang(document.documentElement.getAttribute('lang'));
 
   // load all platform data
   // Platform is a global singleton
@@ -141,7 +133,7 @@ function initApp(window, document) {
   Platform.userAgent(window.navigator.userAgent);
   Platform.width(window.innerWidth);
   Platform.height(window.innerHeight);
-  Platform.load();
+  Platform.load(config);
 
   return app;
 }
@@ -149,12 +141,12 @@ function initApp(window, document) {
 export function ionicBootstrap(ComponentType, config) {
   return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
     try {
-      // create the base IonicApp
-      let app = initApp(window, document)
-
       // get the user config, or create one if wasn't passed in
       config = config || new IonicConfig();
 
+      // create the base IonicApp
+      let app = initApp(window, document, config);
+
       // copy default platform settings into the user config platform settings
       // user config platform settings should override default platform settings
       config.setPlatform(Platform);
diff --git a/ionic/config/config.js b/ionic/config/config.js
index e2358cb887..d36898b3a3 100644
--- a/ionic/config/config.js
+++ b/ionic/config/config.js
@@ -4,7 +4,16 @@ import {isString, isObject, isDefined, isFunction, extend} from '../util/util';
 export class IonicConfig {
 
   constructor(settings) {
-    this.setting(settings || {});
+
+    // defaults
+    this._settings = {
+      platform: 'ios'
+    };
+
+    // override defaults w/ user config
+    if (settings) {
+      extend(this._settings, setting);
+    }
   }
 
   setting() {
diff --git a/ionic/platform/platform.js b/ionic/platform/platform.js
index 82bba2d9fc..cc1133a56d 100644
--- a/ionic/platform/platform.js
+++ b/ionic/platform/platform.js
@@ -172,11 +172,13 @@ export class PlatformCtrl {
            this.testUserAgent(userAgentExpression);
   }
 
-  load() {
+  load(config) {
     let rootPlatformNode = null;
     let engineNode = null;
     let self = this;
 
+    this.platformOverride = config.setting('platform');
+
     // figure out the most specific platform and active engine
     let tmpPlatform = null;
     for (let platformName in this._registry) {
@@ -281,7 +283,7 @@ function matchPlatform(platformName, platform) {
   if (tmpPlatform) {
     tmpPlatform.depth = 0;
     let childPlatform = tmpPlatform.child();
-    while(childPlatform) {
+    while (childPlatform) {
       tmpPlatform.depth++
       childPlatform = childPlatform.child();
     }
@@ -344,7 +346,9 @@ class PlatformNode {
 
   isMatch(p) {
     if (typeof this.c.isMatched !== 'boolean') {
-      if (!this.c.isMatch) {
+      if (p.platformOverride) {
+        this.c.isMatched = (p.platformOverride === this.c.name);
+      } else if (!this.c.isMatch) {
         this.c.isMatched = false;
       } else {
         this.c.isMatched = this.c.isMatch(p);
diff --git a/ionic/platform/registry.js b/ionic/platform/registry.js
index d874eb9a3a..8a06ba3d86 100644
--- a/ionic/platform/registry.js
+++ b/ionic/platform/registry.js
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ Platform.register({
     tapPolyfill: true
   },
   isMatch(p) {
-    // SLEDGEHAMMER OVERRIDE FOR NOW
-    return true;
-
     return p.isPlatform('ios', 'iphone|ipad|ipod');
   },
   versionParser(p) {