Open Tech Ecosystems: Future State or Fruitless Discussion?

Open Tech Ecosystems:
Future State or Fruitless Discussion?
Randall “Texrat” Arnold
MeeGo Community

What is a
tech
(or digital)
Ecosystem?

Is this your world?

SyncML
… or do you live in a Meta-system?

Community Level Hacking
Encouraged by Rovio*
Open Examples:
*http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=474342&postcount=11

Hazards of an Open Tech Ecosystem
“Lowest Common Denominator” development
Basic HTML 5 used for “everything and the kitchen sink”
“Netflix Effect”
Hot demand for services like streaming video drives up consumer cost and fragmentation (mini monopolies)
Choice Overload
When faced with high number of choices, people tend to go with the crowd
Major player gets cold feet and drops support
…and others fall like dominoes

In General:
“…ecosystem wars are fought on three fronts: mindshare, market share and patents.”
-Andreas Constantinou
http://www.visionmobile.com/blog/2011/09/a-game-of-ecosystems-crashing-the-android-party/

Conclusions?
“A digital ecosystem is a self-organising digital infrastructure aimed at creating a digital environment for networked [entities*] that supports the cooperation, the knowledge sharing, the development of open and adaptive technologies and evolutionary business models.”
http://www.digital-ecosystems.org/
(*my edit, was ‘organisations’)

Thank You!
Randall Arnold
http://texrat.net

Open Tech Ecosystems: Future State or Fruitless Discussion?

by Randall Arnold on Sep 26, 2011

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