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I gave this presentation at the Operator API seminar at MWC14. To some degree it is based on a global developer survey which we conducted to better understand how developers perceive the value of operator APIs and services. You can find a blog post with more details, the slides and links to the white paper "The Value of Operator APIs for Developers" here: http://manfredbo.tumblr.com/post/78755173151/operator-apis-what-developers-think

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Operator APIs & Services

What Developers think

Manfred Bortenschlager

MWC, Operator API Seminar

Barcelona, 24/02/2014

@ManfredBo

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Developers are key

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Developers are key in the app/API value chain

DeveloperApp

ConsumerAPI Provider(Operator)

App/Service/Website

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Developers are key in the app/API value chain

DeveloperApp

ConsumerAPI Provider(Operator)

App/Service/WebsiteX

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Developers are key in the app/API value chain

DeveloperApp

ConsumerAPI Provider(Operator)

App/Service/WebsiteXXX

X

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DX – because developers are people, too

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Read more on DX here.

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DX – because developers are people, too

Valuable Simple

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Developer survey

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Close the gap: valuable

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Close the gap: valuable

Top 5 technology adoption reasons

1. Ability to reach users (57%)

2. Speed & cost of development

3. Performance

4. Documentation

5. Ability to generate revenue (44%)

Developer Economics, Q1/2014, n=6041

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Close the gap: simple

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Close the gap: simple

Please allow any developer to engage with the MNO platform without signing complicated agreements.

Document the platform and its APIs without signup; provide test/sandbox servers and ways to test an app without signing an agreement; write example libraries and put them on github.

Developers make the platform vibrant, and developers are not interested in engaging in a "partnership" model;

Allow anyone to work with your APIs and then they will do so.

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail;

without it nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

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