What ecosystem is the one you're talking about?
I only see a few monopolies & big companies (Apple, Amazon, ..) mentioned, not a thriving ecosystem at all. In fact, I believe there's a much greater "ecosystem" around Gnome/Maemo than around the iPhone & "the iPhone clone army" -- e.g. I can open way more formats in my Maemo device (yet I agree maybe the most useless ones from a "average Joe" point of view).