Information systems literature concerning digital platforms reveals several dynamics shaping the formation and evolution of platforms. Our findings reveal valuable recommendations for organizations that are struggling to establish digital platforms. Our work extends the existing theory on platform emergence and provides insights into the learning process of an inexperienced platform owner. The inherent improvements of the digital platform facilitate the app development. We identify transfer of perspective, transfer of knowledge, and transfer of artifacts as basic mechanisms that enable a platform owner to enhance its digital platform. Our results are grounded in 30 expert interviews that we conducted during a period of two years and are enriched by extensive secondary data. To address this gap, in this article, we study the emergence of a digital platform for automotive onboard apps within the BMW Group. However, while there is evidence how app developers acquire skills through these interactions, there is limited knowledge of how platform owners benefit from interacting with app developers to improve their digital platforms. Thereby, the focus lies on the relationship of a platform owner and app developers. Information systems research considers digital platform governance as key to address these challenges. Platform owners face multiple challenges such as on-boarding and orchestrating app developers as well as providing resources to enable the development of complementary apps. Even though coring constitutes a potential threat for third-party developers regarding their functional differentiation, an idea of what a beneficial partnership incorporating coring activities could look like is developed here. Third, the fundamentals of coring are discussed as a first step towards theoretical development. Second, the case study revealed that the phenomenon of platform coring is present on digital platforms for mobile devices.
Coring modes are differentiated by the amount of coring and application maintenance. First, a systematization of coring activities is developed. Specifically, it investigates activities regarding platform coring, as the integration of several functionalities provided by third-party applications in the platform core. To better understand the complex phenomenon of coring and related dynamics, this paper presents a case study comparing iMessage as part of Apple’s iOS and WhatsApp.
That’s where DeskConnect comes in. DeskConnect is an pair of apps for iOS and Mac that avoids all of the unpleasantness of connecting the two devices and allows you to seamlessly send files from one to the other.Today’s mobile devices are part of powerful business ecosystems, which usually involve digital platforms. It’s not seamless and it’s not as effective as it could be. There are also a ton of apps that allow you to connect to your phone through a web browser to transfer files, but those require the app to be running on your phone, and for the app to be in a specific mode to receive the files. For email I have to select all the images from my Camera Roll and either mail them five-at-a-time from the photos app, or copy them, switch to Mail, paste them into a message (which somehow bypasses the absurd five-image limit on in-line sharing in the Photos app) and then address the message to myself and wait for it to send, then wait for it to arrive on my computer. Using a Photo Stream requires me to open iPhoto on my Mac, which means it will probably take forever just to grab a few images. In the past I have used Photo Streams or email to get the images from my phone to my Mac, but both of those are a little more annoying than they need to be.
This is especially true with things like screenshots for reviews. From time to time, I find myself needing to send some files from my Mac to my iPhone, or from my phone to my computer.