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Re:The 2014 Panic Report by blub on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @02:59AM (#8843337)
Actually Apple and Google are doing something to dev houses, they're commoditizing their products. When an app costs 0.99 it's easily replaced with another one and nearly worthless.
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Re:The 2014 Panic Report by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @12:18PM (#8845505)
Commoditise your complements: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
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Re:The 2014 Panic Report by mooreds on Sunday January 11, 2015 @09:48PM (#8872274)
Right, which explains why the dev houses are aggressively moving away from being commoditized, either by selling mobile dev services where the app is a value add to an existing service, or building an app that relies on the network (where there's ability to differentiate).
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