Mapping The Entertainment Ecosystems of Apple, Microsoft, Google & Amazon

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11 points·kyberneticka··6 comments

Well done post, and definitely some interesting data to look at here.

The one point where I think you may have undersold Google is the interoperability of their Music service. They sell their music without DRM (similar to Apple) so it can be played anywhere. Also similar to Apple they have a player built in HTML5 so it can be accessed on most devices without even needing to download the song and play with a native player. This should be reflected and I believe should swing the interoperability category heavily in Google's favor since books and music are both accessible everywhere.

Would have been interesting to also compare the angle of a roving user not invested in any single ecosystem.

But I guess that isn't as easy to compare and would've included a mass of references and explanations which would've killed the narrative of the article.

Why aren't games included? It's a huge industry.

They're probably the same graph as apps.

The reason is somewhat obvious, the source is Macstories and multiplayer online gaming is an area where Apple would not provide an impressive showing.

Hey there, it's Graham the author of the piece here.

I didn't include games because my focus wasn't really on consoles but rather smartphones, tablets and PCs and in that sense games are distributed as just "apps" and as you would have seen, I did look at apps.

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