{"id":39387,"date":"2013-04-26T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=39387"},"modified":"2013-04-26T09:47:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:47:29","slug":"the-recent-earnings-call-from-apple-stresses-the-importance-of-thinking-in-terms-of-ecosystemsplatforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/04\/26\/the-recent-earnings-call-from-apple-stresses-the-importance-of-thinking-in-terms-of-ecosystemsplatforms\/","title":{"rendered":"The recent earnings call from Apple stresses the importance of thinking in terms of ecosystems\/platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidermonkey.com\/blog\/apple-inc-aapl-google-inc-goog-amazon-com-inc-amzn-ecosystems-are-widening-moats-126078\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc (GOOG), Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN): Ecosystems are widening moats <\/a><\/strong>&#8212; from insidermonkey.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/technology-click\/042413-653265-apple-touts-ios-ecosystem-to-blunt-samsung-galaxy-s4-launch.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Apple smartphone strategy: It&#8217;s the ecosystem<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; news.investors.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tbrnewscommentary.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/24\/the-strength-of-apples-ecosystem-remains-its-greatest-asset-and-will-secure-customers-and-profits-despite-slowing-growth-and-margin-dips\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The strength of Apple\u2019s ecosystem remains its greatest asset and will secure customers and profits despite slowing growth and margin dips<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from tbrnewsommentary.wordpress.com by Beau Skonieczny, Analyst<br \/>\n<em>iPad continued to fuel growth and healthy margins for Apple despite headwinds<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Those of us working in the tech side of the house know how difficult it is to navigate this space. The targets are always moving, and determining which tool to go with has changed through these last few years.\u00a0 It used to be about individual tools (and sometimes still is).\u00a0 But increasingly, one needs to fly at the 50,00-foot level and ask how the ecosystems are playing out and how an individual tool fits into a greater ecosystem or platform.\u00a0 Some ecosystems that come to my mind right now include: Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc (GOOG), Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN): Ecosystems are widening moats &#8212; from insidermonkey.com Apple smartphone strategy: It&#8217;s the ecosystem &#8212; news.investors.com The strength of Apple\u2019s ecosystem remains its greatest asset and will secure customers and profits despite slowing growth and margin dips &#8212; from tbrnewsommentary.wordpress.com by Beau Skonieczny, Analyst iPad continued to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,387,112,72,63,7,216,309,195,299],"tags":[532,639,606,602,569,680,721],"class_list":["post-39387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-business","category-corporate-business-world","category-daniel-s-christian","category-google","category-learning-ecosystem","category-microsoft","category-platforms","category-tools","category-workplace","tag-amazon-com-2","tag-apple","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-google","tag-learning-ecosystem","tag-microsoft","tag-platforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39387"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39424,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39387\/revisions\/39424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}