Multi-homing in the Apple ecosystem: Why and how developers target multiple Apple App Stores

Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, MEDES'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 122-128

  Idu, Andrei ^a   Van De Zande, Tommy ^a   Jansen, Slinger ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

App Store; Multi homing; Software ecosystems

Indexed keywords

APP STORE; CUSTOMERBASE; MULTI-HOMING; SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES;

FRUITS; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; INDUSTRY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 84855702540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2077489.2077511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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