App Store, Marketplace, Play! An Analysis of Multi-Homing in Mobile Software Ecosystems

Sami Hyrynsalmi · Tuomas Mäkilä · Antero Järvi · Arho Suominen · Timo Knuutila

37 citations0/0 files storedSSRN Electronic Journal

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Digital Platforms and Economics Mobile and Web Applications Copyright and Intellectual Property

Abstract

Multi-homing, a strategy where a developer is publishing products for multiple platforms, is studied in this paper using descriptive analysis. The data of over 850,000 applications and their developers were collected from Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace. The developers publishing for several software ecosystems were then identified. The findings show that multi-homing is utilized by only a small set of developers. In addition, the applications available at several platforms do not seem to differ by the type or the popularity from single-homing applications.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 37 citations exist upstream.

References

2003Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets 2006Competition in two-sided markets 2006Two-sided markets: a progress report 2005Two-Sided Network Effects: A Theory of Information Product Design 2006Strategies for Two-Sided Markets 2009A sense of community: A research agenda for software ecosystems 2003Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry 2009Visualization of Interfirm Relations in a Converging Mobile Ecosystem

Cited by

2014Sources of value in application ecosystems 2016Modeling and analysis for mobile application services: The perspective of mobile network operators 2013From applications to a software ecosystem platform 2014Bridges and barriers to hardware-dependent software ecosystem participation – A case study

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.