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Open Apps – Good, Bad or Ugly? Open Source and Software SIG, Cambridge Wireless 3rd December 2009
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Open Apps –Good, Bad or Ugly?
Open Source and Software SIG, Cambridge Wireless3rd December 2009
openness |ˈəʊp(ə)nnɪs| noun
Ecosystem
Network Operator
OEM
Operating System
2nd/3rd Party Developer
Consumer
Open
Store
Network Operator
OEM
Operating System
2nd/3rd Party Developer
Consumer
Store
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-platformmulti-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
Sharing
Shopping
PayingLanguage
Discoverability
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 1http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/w a / b row s e r R e d i re c t ? u r l = i t m s % 2 5 3 A % 2 5 2 F%252Fax.search.itunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZContentL ink .woa%252Fwa%252Fl ink%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 1market://search?q=pname:com.foo.bar
Open Score: 8
2
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
Open Score: 9.5
Feeds, URL, etc
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
Consumers don’t careover 100,000 Apps Now Available on the App Store
Apple’s App Store Downloads Top Two Billion
more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide
over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program
The End
