Implementation of Mobile Apps Across Globe and Challenge to Software Engineering
Jung Hyun Kim · Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange · 2015
The market for mobile apps is already big and it's just going to keep getting bigger.According to a recent study in 2015, 1 billion smart phones will be sold, that is twice as many as the number of personal computers right now, the average mobile app user spends more than 30 hours a month on more than two dozen apps which is a lot of time spent by a lot of people.However, there exist country differences in mobile app user behavior the users' from a particular country tend to use more apps belonging to a particular type for example users from USA are more likely to download medical apps.This paper identifies the different types of apps people from a region frequently tend to use and the challenges that the market-driven software engineering face like packaging requirements, feature space, quality expectations, app store dependency and price sensitivity.