This paper studies the ambiguous welfare effects of compatibility in a platform market with endogenous content … provision. Compatibility can be particularly harmful if it leads to reduced content but can be beneficial if content is …

This paper analyzes the unilateral choices of application compatibility by platforms and the endogenous affiliations of … application compatibility is not an equilibrium unless the cost for achieving application compatibility is zero. We also find that … chooses compatibility and that, these asymmetric equilibria are harmful both to the content providers and to users, compared …