Marco Arment:

[W]hen normal people — not gadget bloggers and geeks like us — need to consider an alternative to the iPad, they’re not just thinking of Apple’s lack of “openness” (as Google so vaguely and poorly defines it in relation to Android) or the iPad’s lack of some individual hardware feature. Buying an alternative means giving up Apple’s entire ecosystem. That’s worth it to some buyers, but it’s incredibly impractical for many.

I have mentioned this (vaguely) in a previous post. Either the tech-giants are unnecessarily ignorant, or they are really missing the mark. As Marco so eloquently puts it, an ecosystem is formed by the interaction of a community of organisms [you, app developers, apps, etc.] with their physical environment [the Mac].