Monday, February 13, 2012

Digital Services Seek a Captive Consumer - NYTimes.com

Excerpt from an overview of the emerging battle of the ecosystems

“It’s not about brands or devices or platforms anymore,” said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at Gartner. “It’s about the ecosystem. The idea is to get consumers tied into that ecosystem as tightly as possible so they and their content are locked into one system.”

So Facebook, which has half of its users accessing it from mobile devices, has dabbled in phones and is said to be moving even more firmly in that direction. Apple, once just a computer maker, already gets most of its profit from mobile devices and is eyeing televisions, which would play content from iTunes.

Digital Services Seek a Captive Consumer - NYTimes.com

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