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Mobile Application Ecosystems: An Analysis of Android Ecosystem

Sami Hyrynsalmi, Arho Suominen, Tuomas Mäkilä, Timo Knuutila, Mobile Application Ecosystems: An Analysis of Android Ecosystem. In: In Lee (Ed.), Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management, 1418–1434, IGI Global, 2016.

http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9787-4.ch100

Abstract:

A clear indication of the change in the software application business has been seen in the emergence of new mobile device related ecosystems. We have seen these new mobile application ecosystems, such as Google’s Android ecosystem and Apple’s ecosystem, having had significant success in getting existing software companies as well as new start-up ventures to offer software products and services within them. New, young ecosystems, such as Microsoft’s Windows Phone ecosystem, are also currently growing and the competition between the ecosystems will most likely increase in the near future.
Motivated by the changes in software product business, we focus on analysing the Android application ecosystem, its developers and users. Although noting that this constitutes just a small portion of the whole software business, the data gathered from the ecosystem might uncover different modes of business within these new software product markets. Furthermore, by analysing the structure of the marketplace we can create a significant insight to the ‘health’ of the ecosystem.

BibTeX entry:

@INBOOK{cHySuMxKn16a,
  title = {Mobile Application Ecosystems: An Analysis of Android Ecosystem},
  booktitle = {Encyclopedia of E-Commerce Development, Implementation, and Management},
  author = {Hyrynsalmi, Sami and Suominen, Arho and Mäkilä, Tuomas and Knuutila, Timo},
  editor = {Lee, In},
  publisher = {IGI Global},
  pages = {1418–1434},
  year = {2016},
}

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