It is so committed to third parties offering services through its platform that it has established a fund for supporting developers.
(It's got a few third parties offering content at launch — including Songkick, The Weather Channel and TimeOut).
This CES is bound to see a veritable deluge of smart speakers from third parties, offering up features like portability that users don't really get with first-party hardware.
They now face the prospect of having the ads of third-parties offering their products being displayed in search results.
Stripe believes that its machine learning, and close monitoring of transaction data on its own platform, giving it an edge of a lot of the third party offerings.
For example, in June last year, it sent a cease-and-desist letter to PadMapper, a third party service that mashed up Craigslist apartment data with Google Maps — subsequently adding its map view feature to make third party offerings less necessary.
There are also a number of third party offerings from the likes of Sony and JBL — Harman Kardon even made sure poor old Microsoft Cortana was represented this holiday season with the Invoke.
Transport exchanges are third party services offering value-added services to transport providers such as "load matching" services to optimise vehicle utilisation, tracking and tracing, etc.
The resultant trustworthiness information can be made available to network operator's service platforms or third party platforms offering services over the network in the form of security context.
