Apple ecosystem

The Apple ecosystem is an unofficial term used by the media to describe Apple Inc.'s network of devices and services. The devices include Apple's family of interactive hardware, including iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch models. "Ecosystem" describes the way Apple products work simultaneously with one another in a collaborative network, that once someone joins, it is hard to leave, as Apple products and accessories don't work well with devices from outside the ecosystem.

Description
The term "Apple ecosystem" is used to describe the simultaneous use of Apple products and services, and the fact that these tend to work better when used with other devices from the same company, since for example, it is very easy to connect an iPhone with a device that uses macOS, but nevertheless; it is more complicated to connect it with a Windows device (the main competition of MacOS)

Apple has also contributed to the use of this term, since during the last decades it has been in charge of bringing out its own software and hardware alternatives for its users.

Examples of "Apple ecosystem"
Here are some comparisons between services and devices that Apple offers, against its direct competition. Usually users tend to use more the alternatives that Apple presents them instead of those of other manufacturers.


 * iPhone and iOS instead of Android devices: They are used mostly on cell phones, and they are the 2 most used systems.
 * iMac and macOS instead of Windows and Linux computers and laptops: All are computer operating systems.
 * iPad instead of Tablets from other brands: Both work for practically the same thing.
 * Apple Music instead of Spotify: Both are streaming music services.
 * Apple TV+ instead of Netflix: Both are streaming series services.

Articles

 * I don't want to switch from Android to iPhone because Apple's ecosystem is too good by Antonio Villas-Boas at Business Insider (2019-12-23)
 * “It’s the ecosystem, stupid” by Kirk McElhearn at Intego (2019-01-11)
 * The irresistible lure of the Apple Ecosystem by Anyron Copeman at The Startup, Medium (2019-05-29)
 * The Apple Ecosystem Is Terrific But It Sucks Sometimes by Claire at Pitaka. (2020-03-19)
 * The Evolution of the Apple Ecosystem by Brian Casey at USC Economics Review (2020-01-13)
 * Is there an alternative to Apple's ecosystem? Yes, but you'll have to Google it by Jason Cipriani at ZDNet (2019-05-01)

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