The influence of developer multi-homing on competition between software ecosystems
Developers multi-home by offering apps in competing mobile application ecosystems. If developers multi-home, several competing ecosystems can survive. We analyzed multi-homing in three mobile application ecosystems with 1.3 million apps. 3% of developers generate 80% of installations in a marketplace. The majority of all apps single-home, but the most popular apps multi-home.
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