Mobile Technology
Consortium
Mobile Open Software Platforms
Ecosystem Strategies
Mobile Technology Consortium - 11/21/08
Jacques Meekel
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Mobile Technology
Consortium
What have these
companies in
common?
Maemo/N800
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What have these companies in common? Mobile Technology
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Amazon APIs.
External Dev.: 200,000+
Mindstorms
Google APIs => Gadgets: 45,000+
Google Maps => Updated by users
AN OPEN
PLATFORM...
Linux Kernel
Contributors: 2100+
Open Encyclopedia
Updated by users
Maemo/N800
Facebook Platform
1000+ developers
*”Wikinomics – How Mass Collaboration Changes
Development Platform
everything”, Don Tapscott & Anthony Williams
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Mobile Open Platform – Mobile Technology
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How does an organization benefit?
Take advantage of all the improvements
continuously being made by the community
Contribute to the Open Platform
Leverage the community by providing the tools
(e.g.; SDK), APIs and devices a developer needs to
build and innovate
“Build, share or buy”, not “build, take or buy”
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Android Ecosystem – an example Mobile Technology
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OEMs
ODMs/JDMs
Developer of Android 1.0
+ Web Platforms
Android
Mobile Operators
Platform
Partners committed to
Open Mobile Platform
Application
Developers
Linux Kernel
Social Web
Community, ISVs
Community
Platforms
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Mobile Technology
Mobile Open Platform Ecosystem Consortium
Healthy ecosystem:
All players are healthy and benefit from their association or
mutual participation [Iansiti & Levien]
Android ecosystem players:
Google, Open Handset Alliance, OEMs, ODMS, Mobile
Operators, Application Developers, Social Web platforms
providers, and the Linux development community
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Android Ecosystem Mobile Technology
Consortium
Challenges & Opportunities
OEMs
ODMs/JDMs
Developer of Android 1.0
+ Web Platforms
Android
Mobile Operators
Platform
Partners committed to
Challenges:
Open Mobile Platform
Level of access to platform
Potential fragmentation
Application Control on Apps deployment
Developers Opportunities: Linux Kernel
Social Web
Community, ISVs
Community
Large potential market
Platforms
Flexibility to innovate
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Android Ecosystem Mobile Technology
Challenges: Consortium
Challenges & Opportunities
Management of multiple
OEMs platforms
Fragmentation from Innovation
Opportunities:
ODMs/JDMs
Leveraging community
Developer of Android 1.0
Flexibility to innovate
+ Web Platforms
Android
Mobile Operators
Platform
Partners committed to
Open Mobile Platform
Application
Developers
Linux Kernel
Social Web
Community, ISVs
Community
Platforms
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Android Ecosystem Mobile Technology
Consortium
Challenges & Opportunities
OEMs
Challenges:
ODMs/JDMs
Invisibility
Fragmentation from Innovation
Developer of Android 1.0
+ Web Platforms
Opportunities:
Leveraging community
Flexibility to innovate
Android
Mobile Operators
Platform
Partners committed to
Open Mobile Platform
Application
Developers
Linux Kernel
Social Web
Community, ISVs
Community
Platforms
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Android Ecosystem Mobile Technology
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Challenges & Opportunities
OEMs
ODMs/JDMs
Challenges:
Developer of Android 1.0
Fragmentation => Increased
+ Web Platforms
support costs
Expectations from prosumers:
open vs. wall garden
Android
Mobile Operators
Opportunities:
Platform
Partners committed to
Reduction of platforms
Open Mobile Platform
Leveraging community
Flexibility to innovate
Application
Developers
Linux Kernel
Social Web
Community, ISVs
Community
Platforms
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Conclusions Mobile Technology
Consortium
Emergence of Mobile Open Platforms has the
potential to significantly benefit & transform the
Mobile Industry
Opportunities
Open Platforms => Open Innovations Ecosystems
Walled Garden approach => Open Mass collaboration
Potential of 50,000+ applications available on one platform (e.g.;
45,000+ Goggle gadgets)
Challenges
Healthy ecosystem depends on health of each player
Apps Developers, OEMs, ODMs, MNOs, System Integrators
Fragmentation from Innovation is a risk
Technology
Management of 50,000+ applications
Reduce the test target (platform derivatives x devices) to one test platform
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Mobile Technology
Consortium
White Paper:
Mobile Open Software Platforms - Ecosystem
Strategies
http://globalsoftwaregroupllc.com/WhitePaper.html
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