Offers: Apps and games (iOS), music, HD and SD movies (purchase, rental), HD and SD TV shows, e-books, podcasts, iTunes U (education audio/video)Īpple offers the biggest and most full-featured ecosystem of them all, but to take full advantage of it, you must be locked in to Apple’s devices: iPad for tablets and iPhone and iPod touch. Works with: Apple iPad, Windows 8 (partial) Overall, the Amazon ecosystem is very well rounded and full-featured. Many but not all Amazon services are available to non-Kindle Android devices. The firm’s AppStore for Android is only a fraction of the size of Google Play but is more curated, safer, and generally offers higher-quality apps. That said, the most complete Kindle experience occurs only on Amazon devices.Īmazon has an excellent MP3 store and offers a cloud storage and cloud jukebox player called Cloud Player. Offers: Apps and games (Android-based), music, HD and SD movies (purchase, rental), HD and SD TV shows, e-books, audio booksĮxtras: Kindle e-book/Audible audio book tie-ins, Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud PlayerĪmazon offers the best e-book platform, the Kindle, which is also available in somewhat limited form (with regards to periodicals especially) on Apple iOS devices, Nexus and other Android devices, and Windows.
Works with: Amazon Kindle/Kindle Fire, Apple iPad (partial), Google Nexus (partial), Windows RT (partial), Windows 8 On some devices, you can mix and match between two or more of these ecosystems, and on a real PC, you can (almost) have it all. There are four major choices there-Amazon/Kindle, Apple iTunes, Google Play, and Microsoft-and they’re not necessarily mutually exclusive. And consider what’s out there from an ecosystem perspective. So, stop thinking about tablets for a moment.
That is, your choice of an iPad, Nexus, Kindle, or Windows tablet should be preceded by a thorough understanding of what’s available on each device first. As we barrel through the holiday selling season and swimming in an ever-rising sea of new devices, I’m reminded that the decisions one makes should be about the ecosystems first and the actual devices second.
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