Author Topic: What is that word? (Read 5807 times)

Auntie Helen · « **on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:18:49 pm »

My partner and I have spent the last half hour trawling through online Thesaurus to find the word, which is like ecosystem or environment, which people use when they talk about Apple or Google.

“I don’t want to be trapped into the Apple ****”

Please help us, we’re going mad!

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #1 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:22:02 pm »

Universe.

ElyDave · « **Reply #2 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:23:38 pm »

ecosystem would be understood I think.

Also operating system, paradigm?

offcumden · « **Reply #3 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:24:32 pm »

Don’t people use ‘ecosystem’, or OS?

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:30:03 pm »

Those are all used, but it’s not quite the one we are looking for... but very close to ecosystem.

perpetual dan · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:38:33 pm »

Suite, platform or ecosystem are probably the words i'd use.

nicknack · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:43:35 pm »

ecosphere?

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #7 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:47:18 pm »

All good suggestions but still not the specific one I have in my head (but inaccessibly)

Argh, it’s driving me mad!

FifeingEejit · « **Reply #8 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:49:11 pm »

Quote from: perpetual dan on 20 May, 2019, 07:38:33 pm

Suite, platform or ecosystem are probably the words i'd use.

Platform or Ecosystem for me
Although if it's Apple then Religion/Cult is equally valid.

ian · « **Reply #9 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:51:47 pm »

'Walled garden.'

Whether it's a bad thing depend on your perspective. At least with a wall you don't have to worry about local drunk taking a dump in your flower bed on his way home from the pub.

Canardly · « **Reply #10 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:52:43 pm »

Construct?

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:55:21 pm »

Still not hit on the exact one.

I guess I will wake up in the Milan dale of the night shouting it out!

Ham · « **Reply #12 on:** 20 May, 2019, 07:59:55 pm »

Ecosystemeteuresmarkencrfap ? Trips off the tongue

Kim · « **Reply #13 on:** 20 May, 2019, 08:00:46 pm »

Ecosystem's the word I'd use in that sense: Macbook, OSX, iTunes, IOS, Facetime. Platform if I was talking about, say, OSX or IOS on appropriate hardware that Facetime runs on.

I might say universe if I was considering a wider issue, like the conventions for terminating lines in text files. OSX is part of the Unix-verse in that sense.

As a *nix jibbler I tend to reserve 'environment' for environment variables, though it would be perfectly reasonable to use it to describe, say, the flavours of computers on a LAN.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #14 on:** 20 May, 2019, 08:11:23 pm »

Biosphere?

Jurek · « **Reply #15 on:** 20 May, 2019, 08:23:20 pm »

Socks?

Kim · « **Reply #16 on:** 20 May, 2019, 08:23:42 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 20 May, 2019, 08:11:23 pm

Biosphere?

That's what you find if you pick the keyboard up and shake it.

The Family Cyclist · « **Reply #17 on:** 20 May, 2019, 08:30:05 pm »

Conglomerate? Trap?

hubner · « **Reply #18 on:** 20 May, 2019, 10:25:15 pm »

"Walled-garden", that might be 2 words though.

hubner · « **Reply #19 on:** 20 May, 2019, 10:26:53 pm »

Monopoly.

hellymedic · « **Reply #20 on:** 20 May, 2019, 11:00:08 pm »

Microcosm?

Paul · « **Reply #21 on:** 20 May, 2019, 11:10:25 pm »

Core?
Pie?
Shmapple?

FifeingEejit · « **Reply #22 on:** 20 May, 2019, 11:51:44 pm »

The word I actually use in these cases has come to mind.

It's "bollocks"

Kim · « **Reply #23 on:** 20 May, 2019, 11:53:22 pm »

Quote from: FifeingEejit on 20 May, 2019, 11:51:44 pm

The word I actually use in these cases has come to mind.

It's "bollocks"

'Shit' works quite well, too.

As in "I've got to do X using Windows shit"

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #24 on:** 21 May, 2019, 04:54:42 am »

Bollocks and shit seem suitable words too, but not what I am thinking.

Sadly a night of sleep (dreaming about having ticks latched on to my feet - lovely) did not offer the word.

Maybe in a few months I will read it again somewhere and PING.

Interesting how many synonyms we have given above for the restricted systems of our gadget suppliers.

Author Topic: What is that word? (Read 5807 times)

ian