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Re: iTunes Ecosystem??

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Davoud:
> > Ecosystem: "a biological community of interacting organisms and their
> > physical environment."
> > 
> > To my finely trained ear, describing an interconnected system of
> > inorganic machines and software as an "ecosystem" is as foul and
> > pompous a buzzword as I have ever encountered. It's right down there
> > with "time frame," as in "We expect to have it ready in the March time
> > frame." Reprehensible, despicable, repugnant, opprobrious, and
> > iniquitous.
> > 
> > Suggested replacement for the execrable "iTunes ecosystem:" iTunes.

Robin:
> iTunes is a specific piece of software (or two pieces, one for the Mac and
> one for Windows).

The former is quite enough for me, thank you.

> The concept that is described by the phrase, "iTunes
> ecosystem" is the way in which the iPod, the Mac and the iTunes store,
> interacting through the medium of iTunes, make each element more useful than
> each one would be on its own.  To that mix has been added the iPhone, iPad
> and iOS app store.  Each element benefits from things that the others
> provide, and provides features that make the others more useful.

Thank you for that profound explanation of iTunes. I had no idea what
iTunes, iPod, Mac, iTunes store, iPhone, iPad, iOS--goodness gracious,
is their more?--meant. Now that you have kindly explained to me what
these things are, I think that I shall call the way in which these
mysterious things interact, "iTunes" or, if I'm feeling particularly
wordy, the "iTunes system." This parallels the way I refer to my car as
"my car," and do not refer to the way that the engine, transmission,
steering, suspension, and what-not work together, as my "car
ecosystem."

> If we take your definition of ecosystem and replace biological terms with
> more neutral ones ones, we have "a community of interacting elements and
> their physical environment."  This is a good analogy to describe the kind of
> interplay between the elements of the unmentionable.  I an not think of a
> better analogy to use when describing this kind of interaction and the way in
> which the elements work together to produce a whole that is more useful than the sum of its parts.

O, so now it's holistic, to boot! The holistic iTunes ecosystem. My,
but that is a pompous exposition. You have also described my car, my
TV, and my camera and its accessories. But I still call them what they
are. It's not my Toyota ecosystem, my Sony ecosystem, or my Canon
ecosystem. Just car, TV, and camera. Ditto iTunes, computer, and file
server. I'll just have to make do with that.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

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iTunes Ecosystem?? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-01-27 22:25 -0500
  Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-27 23:25 -0500
  Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-28 04:29 +0000
  Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 21:30 -0800
  Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-01-28 00:00 -0600
    Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2014-01-27 22:14 -0800
    Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-28 06:51 -0800
    Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2014-01-28 09:25 -0600
    Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-01-28 10:26 -0500
    Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-01-28 11:01 -0500
    Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-28 16:55 +0000
      Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-01-29 01:58 +0000
      Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-01-28 21:53 -0600
  Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-28 07:27 -0500
  Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? rcp27g@gmail.com - 2014-01-28 08:24 -0800
    Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2014-01-28 18:21 -0500
      Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-28 20:38 -0700
        Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-29 15:01 +0000
          Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-01-29 19:34 -0600
            Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-01-29 23:20 -0500
  Re: iTunes Ecosystem?? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-28 09:41 -0800

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