Openness of Information Resources: A Framework-Based Comparison of Mobile Platforms
Daniel Schlagwein, Detlef Schoder, Kai Fischbach · UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) · 2024
In the smartphone sector, we are discerning a competition between Symbian, Apple, and Google for the dominating mobile platform. In the design of their mobile platforms and operating systems these organizations use varying degrees if "openness" on different platform elements. We follow a design science approach to construct and apply a framework to better understand how these organizations vary the degrees of openness of different information resources in order to create successful mobile platforms.