Apple has always maintained a closed ecosystem and insists on making its own hardware and software.
In a statement, Bluestacks head Rosen Sharma said its software was helping to "break open" the closed ecosystem surrounding Apple's computers.
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Another common transition visible here is the shift from a closed ecosystem, which is more efficient for developing reliable products quickly, to a more standardized and open ecosystem as companies compete more on price.
In this closed ecosystem we have systemic failure.
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Heck -- even Apple, the most famously-closed ecosystem in the entire technology industry, decouples hardware from software insomuch that Macs are released on a timetable completely unrelated to that of Mac OS and can be upgraded -- at a cost -- for many years, at the owner's leisure.
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Although many consumer game devices eventually turn a profit, they often hit the market as a loss leader, herding gamers into a closed ecosystem and securing a revenue stream for the manufacturer -- every Nintendo, Xbox or PlayStation game made funnels a small licensing fee to the owner of the platform.
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On the other hand, some other stakeholders also see a risk that MS is moving towards a closed developer ecosystem that will harm them (e.g. game developers).
To harness the true potential of social media, companies need to establish a closed-loop ecosystem, create interactions, structured conversations and condition responses.
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Its first success was the iPod, and Apple leveraged this to create an iPlatform, an ecosystem built around its closed operating system and closed products.
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" said BlueStacks CEO Rosen Sharma, " By bringing Android Apps to Mac we are breaking open the Apple ecosystem, which has traditionally been closed.
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For all of OLPC's brilliant bells and whistles, the nonprofit has created a closed platform that isn't capable of using Windows programs--not to mention a constantly evolving ecosystem of Web applications.
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