Some predict a platform war to rival the epic fights between Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Macintosh.

有人预言不同平台的竞争就如同微软的Windows和苹果的Macintosh之间的史诗之战。

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Look for social networking to continue to play a major role in our lives in 2008 as the platform war brewing between Facebook and Google (and the others?) heats up.

展望2008年，社会交际网络将继续在我们的生活中扮演着重要角色；同时，酝酿于Facebook与Google(以及其他网络)之间的用户平台之战也将愈演愈烈。

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On Microsoft and platform wars: "We never saw ourselves in a platform war with Microsoft," Jobs said.

关于微软和平台之战：“我们从来不把自己看作和微软的平台之战的一分子，”乔布斯说。

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After all, the smart phone world is a platform war, where first mover advantage and scale matter.

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As my colleague James McQuivey summed it up recently, this platform war is also expanding into the TV space even though Apple did not make any specific announcement on this topic yet.

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We want to win the entertainment platform war.

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