Droid may compromise Android's long term success
Published: 6 November, 2009
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Over the years, Research in Motion has been very deliberate not to compete with developers within their ecosystem. By only incorporating commoditized functionality into its platform, RIM is not providing cutting edge applications that compete with their partners. This strategy reduces the risk to developers and provides economic incentive for them to create robust and advanced applications that help sell BlackBerry devices. Google is not in the device business but the advertising business and has not pursued the same strategy. Google Maps Navigation seems to be a very innovative application that will present stiff competition to mobile navigation developers.
It is quite interesting that TeleNav has announced an IPO filling as its market is threatened by such disruptive forces. The company does have an Android version of its application, putting them in direct competition with one of their platform providers. I am not sure I would want to be the investment banker selling that story.
More information:
- Peter Crocker's blog
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