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The impact of cross-platform boundary resources on the quality of multihomed apps
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Kang, Chengcheng (2022) The impact of cross-platform boundary resources on the quality of multihomed apps. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
The innovations made by external application developers are essential for platform growth and generativity. With more applications entering the market, the competition becomes more intense. Therefore, application developers are seeking to reach more users to thrive among the competition by launching their applications on different platforms, which is called multihoming. Multihoming also decreases an application’s dependency on a specific platform and its governance.
Applications are developed using platform-specific boundary resources shared by platform owners; however, the author discovered a new type of boundary resources defined as a cross-platform boundary resource, which wrapped the native boundary resources using web technologies that can be used across platforms. This newly identified boundary resource represents a new, less studied development method, which can be used to innovate on platforms when multihoming.
However, the risk of using cross-platform boundary resources is that the quality may decrease due to a lack of specificity when interfacing with each individual platform, as it may cause glitches or invoke some functional defects. To test the difference in quality, I conducted a quantitative study on a group of multihomed applications, which are available on both iOS and Android platforms. A total of 5,755 multihomed applications were collected with their source codes and metadata using computational methods. The results highlight the importance of this alternative solution in multihomed application design within a narrow margin in the quality trade-off. By arguing that using cross-platform boundary resources would not cause huge quality problems when multihoming, I aim to encourage application developers who want to develop multihomed applications to use cross-platform boundary resources at an early stage for their managerial implications. I contribute important insights to the literature on platform innovation by defining and testing the effect of using cross-platform boundary resources on the quality of multihomed applications and discuss its implications for guiding application developers in multihoming.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cross-platform software development, Multihoming (Computer networks), Application software -- Development, Software compatibility | ||||
Official Date: | April 2022 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Warwick Business School | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Henfridsson, Ola ; Aaltonen, Aleksi | ||||
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Extent: | viii, 219 leaves : illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 June 2022 |
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