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When does the ecosystem work?

You'll have to have a subscription, but there is an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on Microsoft's strategy in music services and music players. It constrats Microsoft's successful strategy in operating sytems and music services to their approach with game systems (Xbox). The exec in charge of the Xbox has now been put in charge of Microsoft's music strategy. Seems MS now believes that music and gaming are more similar -- or at least deserve a similar market strategy. Trying to follow the iPod strategy.

I'm laughing because I refuse to buy an iPod because it is such a closed system. But this is an example different markets and products require different strategies. Amazing. Will other developers learn that one solution doesn't fit all?

posted by Dana Bostrom @ 19:25