During the last 5 years, we have witnessed extraordinary development in the mobile market.
Apple’s launch of the iOS platform and associated App Store marketplace turned the
market around, and Apple became the leading company in the business. This development
caused existing players, such as Nokia, to renew their business and attracted new players,
such as Google and Microsoft, to enter the market and introduce their own mobile platforms.
To understand this development, we suggest that a generic abstracted model of
the ecosystem around mobile platforms should be developed describing how the actors,
including users, individual app developers, companies, and digital services, are connected
and interact. In this work, we propose that competition and collaboration in this kind of
abstracted ecosystem can be modeled and analyzed using network analysis. In our
research, we derived weighted competition and collaboration networks for each mobile
platform from an expert survey, and by calculating companies’ degree centrality in their
networks at different times we were able to illustrate how companies’ strategies to build
and maintain an ecosystem differ and develop over time. We believe that this kind of analysis
is useful both for companies that build ecosystems and also for companies that plan to
do business in them. The former can use it to compare their strategy with existing competitors
and also evaluate emerging new ecosystems and the latter to compare and choose
between possible ecosystems with which to do business.
During the last 5 years, we have witnessed extraordinary development in the mobile market.
Apple’s launch of the iOS platform and associated App Store marketplace turned the
market around, and Apple became the leading company in the business. This development
caused existing players, such as Nokia, to renew their business and attracted new players,
such as Google and Microsoft, to enter the market and introduce their own mobile platforms.
To understand this development, we suggest that a generic abstracted model of
the ecosystem around mobile platforms should be developed describing how the actors,
including users, individual app developers, companies, and digital services, are connected
and interact. In this work, we propose that competition and collaboration in this kind of
abstracted ecosystem can be modeled and analyzed using network analysis. In our
research, we derived weighted competition and collaboration networks for each mobile
platform from an expert survey, and by calculating companies’ degree centrality in their
networks at different times we were able to illustrate how companies’ strategies to build
and maintain an ecosystem differ and develop over time. We believe that this kind of analysis
is useful both for companies that build ecosystems and also for companies that plan to
do business in them. The former can use it to compare their strategy with existing competitors
and also evaluate emerging new ecosystems and the latter to compare and choose
between possible ecosystems with which to do business.
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During the last 5 years, we have witnessed extraordinary development in the mobile market.
Apple’s launch of the iOS platform and associated App Store marketplace turned the
market around, and Apple became the leading company in the business. This development
caused existing players, such as Nokia, to renew their business and attracted new players,
such as Google and Microsoft, to enter the market and introduce their own mobile platforms.
To understand this development, we suggest that a generic abstracted model of
the ecosystem around mobile platforms should be developed describing how the actors,
including users, individual app developers, companies, and digital services, are connected
and interact. In this work, we propose that competition and collaboration in this kind of
abstracted ecosystem can be modeled and analyzed using network analysis. In our
research, we derived weighted competition and collaboration networks for each mobile
platform from an expert survey, and by calculating companies’ degree centrality in their
networks at different times we were able to illustrate how companies’ strategies to build
and maintain an ecosystem differ and develop over time. We believe that this kind of analysis
is useful both for companies that build ecosystems and also for companies that plan to
do business in them. The former can use it to compare their strategy with existing competitors
and also evaluate emerging new ecosystems and the latter to compare and choose
between possible ecosystems with which to do business.
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