Clash of Ecosystms: Key metrics & economics for 8 mobile platforms @visionmobile
74-page-long, free report on Mobile Platforms: The Clash of Ecosystems offers a critical commercial and technology comparison across 8 mobile platforms: The usual suspects Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian, Windows Phone, but also the seldom-covered bada, BREW and webOS platforms. Full version from www.visionmobile.com/Ecosystems
Key points
1. Smartphone are the new mainstream but the devils in the details
2. iOS and Android driven by economics of demand
3. iOS and Android magnets for financial investment
4. App stores are for controlling ecosystems
5. The rising star of HTML5
6. Developer acquisition costs mounting
7. Software players put mobile operators on defensive
8. Incumbent mobile platforms lose to next generation challengers
9. No single winner: mobile platforms will remain a multi-horse race
10. Patent wars
