The Dynamics of Digital Platform Innovation: Apple's Strategy to Control Modular and Architectural Innovation in iOS

Eaton, Ben

doi:10.1109/hicss.2016.163

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“…[3,22]). The findings in this respect advance digital platform literature [1,3,5,12] by demonstrating how a digital platform owner may be able to shift control from one layer to other layers.…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 57%

“…Commonly, platform owners will try to attract more content providers for their platform to make it more attractive to platform users [6,9]. To facilitate such content acquisition, the platform owner can provide content providers with access and resources that will Page 1027 facilitate the development of attractive services for the platform [9,12]. These resources can be application programming interfaces (APIs) or software development kits (SDKs) that third-party developers can use to bring their innovations more easily to the platform [22].…”

Section: Evolution Of the Platform Stackmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These dynamics increase the complexity of the platform, in terms of how the services can be orchestrated and managed. Nevertheless, we currently know little of how overall digital platform management unfolds, due to the fact that studies up to now have primarily investigated the phenomenon statically, over brief time periods [7,9,12]. Nor does the extant literature address how the digital platform is built from scratch by a nascent firm, or how the firm then engages in a specific series of competitive moves over time.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Competition Logics during Digital Platform Evolution

Ojala¹,

Lyytinen²

2018

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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How are platforms built and how do they evolve? This is a salient question in digital ecosystems, where the competition has moved from traditional one-sided business logics to multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we explore how a digital platform evolves when the organization of the multilayered platform architecture, and related control points, is modified through competitive moves. We also examine how a firm may be able to manage the increased complexity of the platform. We show that when technical and strategic bottlenecks are solved, the platform owner can expand control to strategically important layers of the platform stack. The findings indicate that the complexity of the platform increases through a series of competitive moves. However, complexity can be managed by increasing the standardization of the platform interfaces, and by jockeying for a stronger position in critical parts of the platform stack.

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Section: Evolution Of the Platform Stackmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Competition Logics during Digital Platform Evolution

Ojala¹,

Lyytinen²

2018

Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Unlike other technologies, contact‐tracing apps, as a software, can be updated to accommodate new standards. To generalize the results, we expect future research to investigate the role of platform owners in the standardization process in various settings and from various perspectives, such as the avenues of influence for the platform users and how this role could affect innovation (Eaton, 2016).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Multi‐mode standardization under extreme time‐pressure – the case of COVID‐19 contact‐tracing apps

Marhold

Fell

2021

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The present study investigates the standardization process of contact tracing apps during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the epidemiological urgency, and differing from classical examples in the literature, this process is characterized by a compressed timeframe. In this setting, we investigate the role of different standard-setting modes and their interaction through the lens of multi-mode standardization. We find that the processes of standard setting through market competition or inclusive multi-stakeholder committees proved time-consuming and inefficient in addressing the immediate needs during this major global health crisis. Multi-mode standardization between committees, market players, and governments equally proved unable to coordinate a standard. Ultimately, a so far neglected actor, namely platform owners, proved to be pivotal in coordinating a widely-adopted standard. Our research extends multi-mode standardization with platform owners as a further standardization actor of proliferating importance given the increasing pervasiveness of platforms in numerous contexts. The present article provides implications for the interplay between different modes of standard setting in general, and the setting of technological standards in crises in particular.

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“…They might occur where the platform and ecosystem are governed poorly by the owner; for example, where there is a poor balance between control and generativity thereby enabling undesirable actions that drive away other participants or stifle new services (Eaton, 2012; Ghazawneh and Henfridsson, 2013).…”

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Orchestrating a digital platform ecosystem to address societal challenges: A robust action perspective

Addo

2022

Journal of Information Technology

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Orchestration of digital platform ecosystems has been well examined in the context of markets and the private sector where an orchestrator is a resourceful firm exploiting commercial opportunities in an industry. However, little is known about how it occurs when a government organization orchestrates to address societal challenges. We build upon the construct of “robust action”—identified with chess masters who play to advance a broad strategy while simultaneously maintaining flexibility—to explain how orchestration by a government organization might overcome initiation, stabilization, expansion, and meta-governance challenges through digital platform-enabled participative architecture, multivocal inscriptions, and distributed experimentation. Evidence for our theoretical framework is drawn from empirical studies of the Aadhaar, a platform ecosystem orchestrated to address multiple societal challenges stemming from identity and its management.

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The Dynamics of Digital Platform Innovation: Apple's Strategy to Control Modular and Architectural Innovation in iOS

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

Competition Logics during Digital Platform Evolution

Competition Logics during Digital Platform Evolution

Multi‐mode standardization under extreme time‐pressure – the case of COVID‐19 contact‐tracing apps

Orchestrating a digital platform ecosystem to address societal challenges: A robust action perspective

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