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Title: Chess or checkers? Gruber on Apple's mobile ecosystem edge Post by: HCK on March 18, 2014, 02:00:03 pm Chess or checkers? Gruber on Apple's mobile ecosystem edge
The dean of Apple bloggers offers a new metaphor from the trenches of the app wars. <p>FORTUNE -- Tech pundit John Gruber, best known for his Daring Fireball blog, launched a mobile app last summer, and it seems to have given him new perspective on the smartphone market. Or at least a new metaphor.</p> <p>The terms most often used to describe the competition among Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT) and Samsung are drawn from MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/17/apple-gruber-chess-checkers/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=136445&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/Jtv9sc1tM3g" height="1" width="1"/> Source: Chess or checkers? Gruber on Apple's mobile ecosystem edge (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/Jtv9sc1tM3g/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/17/apple-gruber-chess-checkers/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/17/apple-gruber-chess-checkers/feed/atom/) |