I came across this tweet advice on how to survive the next wave of tech extinction:
Advice for NYT readers: Buy Apple gadgets, use Google services, buy media from Amazon<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/technology/personaltech/how-to-survive-the-next-wave-of-technology-extinction.html> . Interesting if only they are jumping on the "digital ecology" bandwagon we've discussed here often. But looking at my ecology: I buy Macs. I primarily use Google services: mail, hangouts, calendar, groups, ... And looking at our TV and our now completely digital music, we mainly use Amazon. I was going to say they missed Dropbox as a 4th, but then Doh! .. DB is an Amazon S3/EC2 service. Its not always easy. Getting iTunes and Amazon finally is OK. Getting Google Calendar, Mail and Contacts to integrate with OSX is harder. Amazon seems to be the easiest: they make apps for integrating with everything, always with a web-app fallback. And even my somewhat aging TV and new TiVo have direct to Amazon capabilities. The real shock was when TiVo and the TV decided to have wireless remotes that worked on the iPhone. Ditto for our Apple TV box. What a triangle: Apple, Google, Amazon. But it's true. And the best defense is diversity. How very complex! -- Owen
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