Wednesday 11 July 2012

The Economics Of Computer Software and Microsoft

I was wondering if an economist or a student of economics indulged in academic research leading to doctorate can purse the following topic

                                      "The Economics Of Software Industry"




If you look at the changing face of software industry before the revolution of hand-held smartphones, it was primarily dominated by Microsoft.  Then came the gaint - GOOGLE.   The revolutionary iPhone from Apple changed the face of  mobile phones getting a facelist in form of smart phones or a computer on your palm.
The downtime of NOKIA, the uptime of HTC and SAMSUNG.

Notice, there is no Microsoft in all these.....!    Why....is it because Microsoft was focusing too much on Windows Desktops, Azure, Sharepoint, .NET, SQL Server and stuff like these and did not care too much about smart phone markets?  That is too tempting to find.

As you see in the above diagram, software economics have the following patterns of
  • Psychology
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Statistics
  • Software Development
  • Economics
  • Social Psychology


 To, it sounds like SOFTWARE IS NOTHING BUT COMMON SENSE.   And Common Sense is simple human Psychology and behavior.   

It is also relevant for anyone to do a detailed research of the intricacies and do a market project for next 25 years on what could be expected.    

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