{
  "id": 827413,
  "title": "Platform illusions: When ‘ecosystem’ is just a feature bundle",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/platform-illusions-when-ecosystem-is-just-a-feature-bundle",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-14T01:00:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "e27",
    "slug": "e27",
    "url": "https://e27.co/platform-illusions-when-ecosystem-is-just-a-feature-bundle-20260809/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Few words in business are abused as generously as ecosystem. It appears in investor decks, product strategy documents, market narratives, and executive speeches with almost magical confidence. A company launches adjacent tools, adds integrations, bundles workflows, introduces a marketplace tab, and suddenly begins speaking as though it has crossed into a higher strategic category. The […] The…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}