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Fool’s Gold? Developer Dilemmas in a Closed Mobile Application Market Platform

Joni Salminen, Jose Teixeira, Fool’s Gold? Developer Dilemmas in a Closed Mobile Application Market Platform. In: Jonna Järveläinen, Hongxiu Li, Anne-Marie Tuikka, Tiina Kuusela (Eds.), 15th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, ICEC 2013, Turku, Finland, August 13-15, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 155, 121–132, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39808-7_11

Abstract:

In this paper, we outline some potential conflicts that platform owners and software developers face in mobile application markets. Our arguments are based on comments captured in specialized online discussion forums, in which developers gather to share knowledge and experiences. The key findings indicate conflicts of interests, including 1) intra-platform competition, 2) discriminative promotion, 3) entry prevention, 4) restricted monetization, 5) restricted knowledge sharing, 6) substitution, and 7) strategic technology selection. Opportunistic platform owners may use their power to discriminate between third-part software developers. However, there are also potential strategic solutions that developers can apply; for example diversification (multi-homing), syndication and brand building

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpSaTe13a,
  title = {Fool’s Gold? Developer Dilemmas in a Closed Mobile Application Market Platform},
  booktitle = {15th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, ICEC 2013, Turku, Finland, August 13-15, 2013. Proceedings},
  author = {Salminen, Joni and Teixeira, Jose},
  volume = {155},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing},
  editor = {Järveläinen, Jonna and Li, Hongxiu and Tuikka, Anne-Marie and Kuusela, Tiina},
  publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  pages = {121–132},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Platform         Ecosystem         Technological Strategy         Software distribution         E-commerce         AppStore},
}

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