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Originally Posted by boswd
but there is an intergrated ecosystem one that is tied to OS platform Go to the Android market and you have an a place to buy movies, games, apps, books etc. my point is it's not tied into one particular piece of hardware.
It is more advantageous to the consumer not to be locked into a single device. If want to go from Asus to Samsung my media comes with me. With iOS you have one piece of hardware. Sure it's great for apple but you are slave to the companies next hardware model. and if you don't like it then you are SOL. If I own the Asus and I don't like their next model but love Samsung I can move on and the ecosystem of the Android market and even Amazons cloud and MP3 comes with me.
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That does seem like valid reasoning. Then again, people have no problem buying into proprietary gaming consoles. A lot of it I think has to do with the disposable nature of content. People don't hoard content. Much of the content is either streamed (from a service available on multiple platforms), replaced with something new, free to begin with, or flat out discarded. The type of stuff people hang on to tends to be in easily transferable formats anyway.