Battle of the Media Ecosystems: Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft

bsk_cw writes "This article takes a long look at four major consumer tech ecosystems — Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft — and examine how well (or badly) they're serving up their media. The authors talk about how each company approaches gaming, music, video, books, etc., and how each integrates all its parts into some kind of whole. The conclusion? That none of the four can be said to be the best in all things, but they're certainly trying."

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[Anonymous Coward]

What's an ecosystem? Another marketing term to having one company providing you a set of services?

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[h4rr4r]

Mod this guy up.

Screw ecosystems. Just use well documented open standards and let everyone cooperate. Just because someone has a phone from company B does not mean they should not be able to play media from company C.

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[Mitchell314]

Apparently it means "a garden with walls slowly being built around it"

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[GameboyRMH]

The walls are quite well-established in all of those, they're just not done making them a thousand feet tall, covered in grease, topped with spikes and surrounded by lava moats.