“Once upon a time, tech behemoths such as Microsoft and Apple battled to persuade businesses and consumers to purchase their computers, mobile devices or software packages,” Michael deAgonia, Preston Gralla, and JR Raphael write for Computerworld. “Those days seem so quaint now.”
“Today, the battle is on a much larger scale. It is a war between vast ecosystems made up of hardware, software and online services, not just individual pieces of hardware and software,” deAgonia, Gralla, and Raphael write. “Purchase an iPhone, for example, and you’re buying into the entire Apple ecosystem, including operating systems, apps, add-ons, music, movies, books and more.”
deAgonia, Gralla, and Raphael write, “Despite their best efforts, none of the companies has yet succeeded in creating the kind of complete media ecosystem that can rise above all its competitors. So for now it’s still a mix-and-match world, and looks likely to stay that way for a long time to come.”
Read more in the full article here.
Apple clearly has the best. Amazon is just a reskinned Android, Android is 99.9% malware, and no one makes apps for Windoze Phoney. Apple is clearly the winner in the smartphone war.
I haven’t read the article. Can’t be bothered. From this excerpt, it just sounds like another example of writers looking to attract eyeballs by penning another article (penning in the digital age anyway) that has Apple in its title. But that aside, how many writers does it really take to write this kind of article? Who should I ask? deAgonia, Gralla, or Raphael?
Don’t bother. You have to click through ten pages of useless drivel concluding that there is no winner.
Thanks for the warning, too bad MDN cant just skip past posting those articles…unless they make a cut also…
Bingo!
Apple’s “walled garden” is pretty good. All my music is available on all my devices, even the iPads that only have 16GB, through iTunes Match. Every photo I take with my iPhone or import into iPhoto is available to all my devices (iMac, Macbook Air, iPhone, iPad2, iPad mini) right away, all my browser windows and tabs open on any device are available on any other device, the FW drive on my Airport Extreme is available on my Macbook Air anywhere… OK, so there are some things I’d like iCloud to do better, but on the whole, Apple does a pretty good job.
…and no, I didn’t bother reading the article. I hate that shit where you have to click “continue” 10 times. That’s the garbage of the web.
Here’s a tip for you –
Click on the “Print” link, and most articles will be displayed in full.
Far out!
Reader, at least on iPhone, continues to load additional pages at the bottom.
Dumb article. All ecosystems are not created equal. This article makes it sound like in the end they’re all the same.