Today Google officially took the wraps off Jelly Bean, the next evolution of its mobile platform and while it's not quite the revolutionary shift that was Gingerbread to ICS, it still marks an important improvement for the ecosystem.

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The new OS, which is the most important part of the product, isn't an evolution of the old BlackBerry platform.

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During the spring (Q2 2012), the roadmap claims that Microsoft will release Tango, the next evolution in the Windows Phone platform.

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"The new IBM zEnterprise System represents a potentially revolutionary change to the platform and the next phase in the evolution of highly efficient, scalable processing opening up the possibility of hosting entire workloads on a single highly integrated system, " said Martin Kennedy, Managing Director, Citi's Enterprise System Infrastructure.

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All this resonates with the evolution of the Internet as a platform that to date has attracted less restriction than other media platforms.

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The shift towards ad revenue and a new platform for helping listeners discover music is considered by most involved to be an essential evolution of the iTunes ecosystem as sales of digital downloads have slowed.

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Five years ago everyone said the next step in evolution was television, but that was attempted, failed, and now the Internet is our main platform of distribution.

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