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# Ecosystems in Action
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/ecosystems-in-action/
- Published: 2012-12-24T14:53:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-20T02:48:32.000Z
- Description: Ecosystems extend platforms. I've said it before and I'll say it again.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Platforms, Strategy, Apple, Frenemies, Kickstarter, The Age of the Platform

What do you get when you mix Apple's developer ecosystem with Kickstarter? You get some [amazing new innovations](https://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2012/12/23/10-cool-kickstarter-gifts-that-have-been-funded-finished-and-brought-to-market/9/?ref=philsimon.com) about which other companies can only dream.

In the Age of the Platform, outside forces can take your products and services in fascinating directions.

Or not, as RIM is discovering.

Silly is the company today that believes that it can do it all on its own. Not true.