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shared by Graham Perrin on 13 May 09
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where we're going
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software with APIs that third party developers can write apps on top of
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grow a tech business more quickly if you get third party developers
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lessons about where the industry might go
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Fair warning: this is a long post.
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In 1969, the Justice Department, ADR, and several others filed antitrust suits
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IBM agreed to stop bundling free software
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disaggregation is a natural outcome
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multiple companies can move faster
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Although the metaplatform isn't necessarily elegant
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The OS is dissolving into a soup of resources distributed across both the network and the local device, with the application in the middle calling on both
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The most effective mobile application are
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hybrids of local and network resources
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gradual evolution of a super-OS that includes both the network and the device
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we don't have a name for this new thing
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trouble talking about it
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I'm calling it the "metaplatform"
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backlog of potential creativity
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what it lacks in beauty it more than makes up for in rate of change and versatility
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compatibility
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what happens if that company goes out of business or just decides to stop maintaining the product?
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If you've incorporated external web services into your site, the site will break if any of those services stops working
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We don't have any systematic ways to deal with problems like these
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a business opportunity for the next crop of software entrepreneurs
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What the metaplatform means
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Much of the discussion in this post is pretty theoretical
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practical implications
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iPhone today gives (in my opinion) the best overall mobile browsing and app discovery experience
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APIs that will enable other developers to extend
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implementation is often off-target
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trying to make their APIs into the business equivalent of an operating system
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private ecosystem
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opening the application outward
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mixed and matched with other functionality in the metaplatform
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export data isn’t enough... what springs to mind is open source
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Lots to think about
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Clayton Christensen
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technological advances always lead to value chain fragmentation
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a framework to predict where most profits will be made
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HTML5
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changes that are brewing in the mobile industry
