A Measurement-based Study on Application Popularity in Android and iOS App Stores
Wei Liu, Ge Zhang, Jun Chen, Yuze Zou, Wenchao Ding · 2015
Mobile application stores (appstores) are emerging digital distribution platforms with explosive growth. Although there have been some observations on the mobile application (app) popularity in Android appstores, there is no report on the app popularity in iOS appstores. What's more, the details about user downloads and app popularity, such as the composition of downloads traffic and the migration of user interests, are untouched yet. In this paper, we unreel these issues based on five-month measurements of four third-party appstores (two for Android and two for iOS respectively).