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Sandra Sieber: The End of Open Internet?
IESE professor discusses the future of apps and html
December 28, 2011
The year 2011 will be remembered for the rise of mobile data, explains IESE Prof. Sandra Sieber in this interview, but at the moment there are many discussions about how the market will develop. Will the expansion of the "app economy" in a mobile environment threaten the open standards currently associated with the internet?
"Very recently, some people have started claiming that the future of the web is actually closed and application-based, and that our good-old, open intenet is essentially dead," she says.
To focus the discussion, we need to go back to the basics and think about content - its production and distribution, argues Prof. Sieber. On the distribution side, one of the key challenges faced by app stores is to provide useful classifications of data for users quickly.
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