Open Apps - Good, Bad or Ugly?

Open Apps – Good, Bad or Ugly? Open Source and Software SIG, Cambridge Wireless 3rd December 2009

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History

10 years ago, open standards-based web applications on your phone. E-mail, sports, games, weather, banking ...

9 years ago, an app store.

7 years ago, a smartphone supporting downloadable apps

4 years ago, a multi-platform multi-language App Store launches

The iPhone App Store was only launched a little over a year ago. It now dominates mindshare.

Open Apps

Open Criteria Source code Discoverability Shopping Language Paying Sharing Deploying

Open Scorecard Source code 0.5 NDA Open Score: 0.5

Open Scorecard Deploying 1 iTunes Open Score: 1.5

Open Scorecard Sharing 1 iTunes Open Score: 2.5

Open Scorecard Shopping 1 iTunes Open Score: 3.5

Open Scorecard Discoverability 1 http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/ wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F %252Fax.search.itunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects % 2 5 2 F M Z C o n t e n t L i n k . wo a % 2 5 2 F w a % 2 5 2 F l i n k %253Fpath%253Dapp%25252ffoursquare Open Score: 4.5

Open Scorecard Paying 1 iTunes Open Score: 5.5

Open Scorecard Language 1 Objective C Open Score: 6.5

Open Scorecard Source code 1 Apache Open Score: 1

Open Scorecard Deploying 3 adb Open Score: 4

Open Scorecard Sharing 1 Market Open Score: 5

Open Scorecard Shopping 1 Market Open Score: 6

Open Scorecard Discoverability 1 2 market://search?q=pname:com.foo.bar Open Score: 8

Open Scorecard Paying 1 Google Checkout Open Score: 9

Open Scorecard Language 1.5 Java-ish Open Score: 10.5

Open Scorecard Source code 2 Precentral Open Score: 2

Open Scorecard Deploying 2 Konami Open Score: 4

Open Scorecard Sharing 2 Precentral Open Score: 6

Open Scorecard Shopping 2 Palm App Catalog, Preware Open Score: 8

Open Scorecard Discoverability 1.5 Feeds, URL, etc Open Score: 9.5

Open Scorecard Paying 2 Paypal Open Score: 11.5

Open Scorecard Language 3 HTML, CSS, JS Open Score: 14.5

Palm Android iPhone

The Ugly

more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide Consumers don’t care over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program over 100,000 Apps Now Available on the App Store Apple’s App Store Downloads Top Two Billion

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Open Apps - Good, Bad or Ugly?

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