届时,消费者们购买三明治、饮料和火车票时,只要将他们的手机靠近一个类似应用于伦敦地铁的“牡蛎卡”(Oyster card)系统的读取器,就可以付款。
Consumers will be able to pay for sandwiches, drinks and train tickets by placing their phones close to a reader similar to the Oyster card system on the London Underground.
而且他们都庞大、成形的应用“生态系统”,可以为消费者提供所需的应用。 这两点Windows都不具备。
They also have large app ecosystems in place giving consumers what they want for the tablet — apps.
云消费者需要识别的资产就是他们能够控制的资产:操作系统、网络设备以及在虚拟机级部署的应用程序。
The assets the cloud consumer needs to identify are those he can control: the operating systems, network equipment, and deployed applications at the virtual machine level.
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