&amp;#147;How about an App Store?&amp;#148; Enablers and Constraints in Platform Strategies for Mobile Network Operators

Gonçalves, Vânia Guiomar Da Silva; Walravens, Nils; Ballon, Pieter

doi:10.1109/icmb-gmr.2010.41

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“…Prior research has observed the growing importance of digital application marketplaces Eaton et al, 2015;Goncalves et al 2010;Holzer and Ondrus 2011).…”

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A Paradigmatic Analysis of Digital Application Marketplaces

Ghazawneh

Henfridsson

2015

Journal of Information Technology

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Abstract. This paper offers a paradigmatic analysis of digital application marketplaces for advancing information systems (IS) research on digital platforms and ecosystems. We refer to the notion of digital application marketplace, colloquially called "appstores," as a platform component that offers a venue for exchanging applications between developers and end-users belonging to a single or multiple ecosystems. Such marketplaces exhibit diversity in features and assumptions, and we propose that examining this diversity, and its ideal types, will help us to further understand the relationship between application marketplaces, platforms, and platform ecosystems. To this end, we generate a typology that distinguishes four kinds of digital application marketplaces: closed, censored, focused, and open marketplaces. The paper also offers implications for actors wishing to make informed decisions about their relationship to a particular digital application marketplace.

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“…Prior research has observed the growing importance of digital application marketplaces Eaton et al, 2015;Goncalves et al 2010;Holzer and Ondrus 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Paradigmatic Analysis of Digital Application Marketplaces

Ghazawneh

Henfridsson

2015

Journal of Information Technology

120

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“…The mobile application services lead the success of mobile devices by providing excellent smartphone user experiences (Kim et al 2014). The changes of mobile ecosystem and the industry-level business model have been driven by mobile application services and their platform, such as App Store (Gonçalves et al 2010;Holzer and Ondrus 2011;Kim et al 2014). …”

Section: The Target: Smartphone Application Servicesmentioning

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Developing new smart services using integrated morphological analysis: integration of the market-pull and technology-push approach

2015

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With the rise of smart services, new services are no longer generated via the traditional linear models of innovation. Rather, smart-service innovations require new frameworks to integrate the market-pull and technology-push models, which focus on both user-centric considerations and technological developments. However, current streams of research continue to merely suggest a conceptual framework. Therefore, it appears to be difficult to apply this framework into practice, due to a lack of systematic methodologies. In response, this study employs morphological analysis, a powerful tool for the systematic generation of ideas. Since the morphological analysis employs several dimensions for explaining new services and combines them to generate new ideas, it is easy to integrate the different approaches to innovations, such as market pull and technology push. A case study of smartphone application services is also conducted.

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“…It was launched in July 2008 and in the first month users downloaded more than 60 million apps (Wingfield, 2008) to arrive to 10 billion downloads out of the 350,000 apps available as of January 2011 (Apple Press Release, 2011). As it controls many of the assets related to the value proposition and has a direct and strong relationship with customers, the business model adopted by Apple through the iPhone represents what has been named a system integrator platform (Gonçalves et al, 2010). As illustrated in Figure 5, while customers pay MNOs for network access, they buy handsets and mobile content and services through the system integrator platform (i.e., Apple).…”

Section: The Evolution Of Mobile Market Towards a User-centred Structurementioning

confidence: 99%