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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
$5.5 billion a big number, but not that big if you keep in mind that, in 2012, Amazon's total revenue was a whopping $61 billion, with forecasts for 2013 somewhere
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I disagree; I think that's a *huge* number. Amazon sells a vast quantity of items, and if almost 10% of those items consist of tablets and e-readers, that's a very large amount. It probably also bodes well for Amazon that these devices encourage the purchase of more products from the Amazon *ahem* ecosystem.
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Originally Posted by Rizla
Ecosystem. Noun. Pity ecosystem, a case of what happens when good words fall in with a bad crowd. Rebecca Greenfield explains, "This reasonable science-related word has been co-opted by the tech writing community, which has senselessly ravaged it. The true meaning of the term translates to a 'biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.' As in, the place where living things live together. To tech writers, however, ecosystem involves a lot of non-living things that just happen to share characteristics. The Android ecosystem, the app ecosystem, the tablet ecosystem, the digital ecosystem, the start-up ecosystem — it's not like at the end of the day all the little gadgets go home to their gadget neighborhoods and hang out."
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Greenfield is an idiot. Her first assignment is to look up the word "metaphor."
Have I missed her earlier pieces on how tech writers are misusing the term "walled garden," which can only refer to an area of vegetation enclosed by a masonry barrier?
Or how "Windows" can only refer to a hole in a wall installed for the purpose of letting in light and air?