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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

Ecosystems

take years to build and rely on other companies. In fact, who has time these days? In addition, a kick in if a product reaches critical mass. Microsoft and SanDisk demonstrates the potential for a few years ago with its iPod digital media market in the third seeding of the cases and docks with their own proprietary connectors and now abandoned. During the past year, however, we saw a number of high-tech companies a new approach to the development of mobile products - showcase business - where convincing reject any notion of silos launch almost everything they have in a product.