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Last week, the switch is discussed Nokia's attempt to help Microsoft create a mobile ecosystem for third, as well as Apple and Google. That word - ecosystem - has clearly moved pantheon of passwords, using the synergies on many purpose-built. And yet, to build and sustain ecosystems, something very few companies understand. True technology ecosystems are more than just a platform for success, or launch a series of products together, since the owners of the company. They are typically implemented strategically nourishment.

A concept that Apple seems to have adapted to natural ecosystems is the concept of water cycle that you probably learned in school. Apple turns up the heat on water for survival of the innovation happening between Mac and soaring market justifies market growth IOS. Apple has hinted at this cycle in his return to the Mac event. After inheriting many technologies of Mac OS X, IOS began offering launch monitors Mac OS X applications in full screen app again, and document an auto store. Outputs of the week, but shows that the cycle may soon go the other way that Apple has unveiled two technologies that Mac could adjust the force IOS ecosystem.

The first is the thunderbolt, the name Apple for the peak of light: a faster bus than Sandra Bullock in Speed leads. Apple is no stranger to innovation relationship that developed heart Now Apple is well positioned to differentiate itself again based on the speed of media synchronization.

The technology behind IEEE 1394, also known as FireWire. Now, Apple is well positioned to discriminate again in the sync speed media.

FireWire is the original iPod connected to your Mac, and whenever the music transfer much faster than what was available in most of the competitors with the first generation of USB. Now available with iPads and iPhones with more than six times as many gigabytes as the first iPod, Apple is well positioned to discriminate again in the sync speed media. And this time, Intel - which, once champion USB - Keanu Reeves will move to the front of the bus.

Thunderbolt also do much more than the speed of data transfer. It provides a standard video-out port, which would be good for the iPad, but could also open the door to features like a USB host, which Apple has always avoided. You could also replace the 30-pin connector, which Apple launched in 2003.

Another Apple seedlings planted in his parachute ecosystem. Better, a more convenient communication device is a need that was changed years ago for discussion. Promising approaches to TransferJet HP recently unveiled Touch sharing, the proliferation of chips near field communication, combined with Wi-Fi Direct should push forward the development on this front.

Yet the strategy of Apple - while requiring user intervention - is a major step forward in facilitating the transfer of files between computers can be physically inches, but feels worlds apart, without a flash drive or network shared at your fingertips. At this point, we know, the parachute, and landing support shipments of Mac-Mac in Leo. However, Apple could counter Touch to share with the landing parachute, if it is willing to lend more support to iTunes for transferring data wirelessly.

Lightning strikes and parachute would significantly increase the effectiveness of devices and IOS, but it is important to note that both new challenges for the control of the Apple user experience. It is a compromise that preserves all the ecosystems of the technology to grow.