Parks Associates analysts will participate in a special Research Presentation, "The Rise of the App Platform in the Mobile and CE Markets" on Wednesday, June 6th at 8:30 AM during the CONNECTIONS Digital Living Conference (co-located with TIA: Inside the Network 2012) in Dallas, Texas.

Presenting analysts include Kurt Scherf, Vice President & Principal Analyst and Harry Wang, Director, Mobile and Health Research.

Unlike the tablet and smartphone markets, where Apple’s main competition is the Android operating system and applications platform, the connected consumer electronics market has many variants. This presentation examines the factors that will differentiate connected consumer electronics operating systems and applications platforms in the long term:

-- How effectively they can grow their developer partners to bring applications to market in an efficient manner
-- Ties between smart TV apps and those found on portable and mobile products such as tablets and smartphones
-- Convincing premium content owners that their content will be used to create additional value

For more information about this research presentation and other CONNECTIONS at TIA 2012 sessions, please visit the www.connectionsus.com