Thread: Online petition to get rid of Elop as CEO
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Rugoz is offline Rugoz
2011-11-17 , 07:13
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The word 'ecosystem' in this context is a euphemism for locking in consumers by taking advantage of (and often forcing) network externalities. This is what MS managed to do in the desktop OS market. Your boss uses Windoze, so you must use Windoze. Smartphone manufacturers are now starting to use the same tactics in the mobile sphere, and sadly it appears to be working.
I don't think the ecosystem (i.e. services like itunes, gmail etc.) is what made the iphone and android big (meaning todays huge marketshares). Its the combination of a good OS combined with good dev. tools, which allows 3th party dev. to make services available on your handset. Nokia should have stayed out of the services business (except maybe maps, where economics of scale make it worthwile) and concentrated on providing good hardware and OS+Qt tools.

You can still integrate 3th party services in your OS if you want tight integration, like its done with messaging on the N9.

Really, I hope that i never ever heard "ecosystem" out of Animal Planet It reminds me of bad'old'time, when we had communist propaganda, here in Poland Crafting words, that can mean anything in any context, but de facto doesn't mean anything (important).
lol, i know exactly what you mean. If you hear elop talk, he keeps repeating "ecosystem" til you head spins. In the end you get the impression it just means everything and nothing.
Last edited by Rugoz; 2011-11-17 at 07:21.