One Ring to Unite Them All: Convergence, the Smartphone, and the Cloud

Pon, Bryan; Seppälä, Timo; Kenney, Martín

doi:10.1007/s10842-014-0189-x

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“…Studies by Harris and Chin [23], Kulmeka [24], and Pon [25] confirmed the secondary data on mobile apps as being the best quality currently available.…”

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“…23][24]. Pon[25] used the third party report of mobile phones' operation systems to examine the behavior. Additionally, mobile app downloading is considered quality data when actual app performance of users is essential and downloading is the only way to analyze the market information[26].The mobile apps with top rankings and the highest growth rate in the United States, China, and world market were selected for the market analysis contained in this research.…”

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Mobile APPs and Global Markets

Tao¹,

Edmunds²

2018

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In this research, we examine the popularity of mobile applications across different categories by using the measures of monthly active users (MAUs) of each app. It is the authors' intention to inspect the key characteristics of mobile apps and the relationship those characteristics have with market share and growth rate in global markets. The ease of use of mobile apps leads to a subsequent impact on the global users' mobile behavior in daily life. Mobile apps have flooded the market, however, the acceptance and use of individual apps relies on a combination of the preference of users and the operational strategies employed by app developers. Based on secondary data collected from multiple sources including both publications and online data, the global market growth of mobile apps including China (the world's largest market of mobile apps) has shown a correlation between apps' market share and the users' mobile behavior based on messaging, networking, shopping, video watching, and gaming. This research categorizes users' mobile behavior in terms of age groups and time spent on certain mobile apps. The objective of this investigation is better understanding of the dominance of leading mobile apps and the future trend of mobile apps designed for the global market.

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“…Studies by Harris and Chin [23], Kulmeka [24], and Pon [25] confirmed the secondary data on mobile apps as being the best quality currently available.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 71%

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Mobile APPs and Global Markets

Tao¹,

Edmunds²

2018

TEL

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“…Enabled by cloud computing, viewers can use their accounts to enjoy a seamless watching experience across devices [59]. Meanwhile, China has, in recent years, witnessed an increasing penetration of mobile devices, fuelled by decreasing costs for devices and bandwidth.…”

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Exploring Performance Determinants of China’s Cable Operators and OTT Service Providers in the Era of Digital Convergence—From the Perspective of an Industry Platform

2017

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This paper investigates key determinants of business performance in China's video industry in the era of digital convergence. Specifically, we analyze China's OTT (over-the-top) service providers and cable operators based on the perspective of an industry platform, which acts as the core module of a business ecosystem and is capable of facilitating and coordinating interdependence among different agents. Panel data models are established to empirically explore what factors impact the performance of these two types of players. The findings demonstrate that both platform use and the size of an installed base are crucial for the determinants of the performance of OTT service providers and cable operators. An online video platform can also benefit from an increasing proportion of mobile viewers by implementing a multi-screen strategy. Further, an OTT service provider can profit from the interaction between its installed base and UGC (user-generated content), while cable operators can take advantage of positive feedback between their demand side and supply side.

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“…The smartphone revolution was, in essence, a takeover of the mobile communications industry by the computer industry (West and Mace 2010;Pon et al 2014). Mobile handsets transformed from Bphones with enhanced capabilities^to Bminiature computers with phone capabilities.^This takeover by computing industry players is likely to spread dramatically, as the transformation of computing power from a scarce to an abundant resource (Kushida et al 2015) enables an almost limitless expansion of the domains in which data can be gathered and processing devices embedded.…”

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The Politics of Commoditization in Global ICT Industries: A Political Economy Explanation of the Rise of Apple, Google, and Industry Disruptors

Kushida

2015

J Ind Compet Trade

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The global Information and Communications Technologies industry has experienced a rapid, radical reorganization of industry leaders and business models-most recently in mobile. New players Apple and Google abruptly redefined the industry, bringing a wave of commoditization to carriers and equipment manufacturers. Technologies, corporate strategies, and industry structures are usually the first places to look when explaining these industry disruptions, but this paper argues that it was actually a set of political bargains during initial phases of telecommunications liberalization, which differed across countries, that set the trajectories of development in motion. This paper shows how different sets of winners and losers of domestic and regional commoditization battles emerged in various ICT industries around the world. Carriers won in Japan, equipment manufacturers in Europe, and eventually, computer services industry actors rather than communications firms emerged as winners in the US. These differences in industry winner outcomes was shaped by the relative political strength of incumbent communications monopolies and their will to remain industry leaders, given the political system and political dynamics they faced during initial liberalization. The US computer services industry, which developed independently of its telecommunications sector due to antitrust and government policy, eventually commoditized all others, both domestically and abroad. This paper contends that a political economy approach, tracing how politics and regulatory processes shaped industry structures, allows for a better understanding of the underlying path dependent processes that shape rapidly changing global technological and industry outcomes, with implications beyond ICT.

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One Ring to Unite Them All: Convergence, the Smartphone, and the Cloud

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Mobile APPs and Global Markets

Mobile APPs and Global Markets

Exploring Performance Determinants of China’s Cable Operators and OTT Service Providers in the Era of Digital Convergence—From the Perspective of an Industry Platform

The Politics of Commoditization in Global ICT Industries: A Political Economy Explanation of the Rise of Apple, Google, and Industry Disruptors

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