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Platform Ecosystems
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Platform Ecosystems

by Amrit Tiwana
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
12h 10m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Glossary

App An add-on software subsystem or service that connects to the platform to add functionality. Also referred to as a module, extension, plug-in, or add-on. Apps are downstream complements for platforms; platforms are functionally more desirable when there are a wide variety of complements available to them.

App microarchitecture A description of how an app interacts, communicates, and interoperates with the platform. This does not have a 1:1 mapping with platform architecture because platform architecture is for apps as envisioned by a platform owner; app architecture is the same architecture as realized in the implementation of an individual app by its developer.

App microarchitecture, client-based Where presentation logic, application ...

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