Apple now has full platforms on your wrist and under your TV. Other companies, most notably Google and Microsoft, have answers to most of Apple’s most important products and services.
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But Apple continues to have an enviable advantage here: its platforms integrate pretty well together and people actively want to use more than one of these platforms. There are bugs and edge cases, but Apple’s stuff is either preferable to the alternatives or the alternatives aren’t better enough to lure me away, not permanently at any rate.
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This is to the benefit and detriment of customers, depending on your point of view. Speaking as an Apple user who regularly uses, writes about, and generally enjoys Windows and Android, I can say that the tight integration between Apple products makes Apple’s ecosystem harder than ever to leave, even temporarily. To switch, I would need to replace a million little conveniences that I currently use without really thinking about them.
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This isn’t really a good or a bad thing, it’s just the direction computing has been moving this decade. Every big company wants to be all things to all people; Apple is just better at it than most companies. Whatever new products and features it introduces next year, expect Apple to keep pushing all of its stuff closer together.

Per il giorno di Natale Andrew Cunningham ha preparato un lungo articolo per Ars Technica intitolato:

In 2015, Apple’s ecosystem got larger
(and harder to leave) than ever →

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