RELIABILITY OF MOBILE APP ECOSYSTEM
Issues in Information Systems · 2015
Digital ecosystems such as app ecosystems are viewed as digital counterparts of biological ecosystems.As in biological ecosystems, the attributes of the members, such as diversity, play an important role in digital ecosystem functioning and reliability.In an app ecosystem, only a few apps are successful and the vast majority of apps do not succeed by any measure.This implies that most of the apps in an app ecosystem can be considered redundant.In this paper, I argue that we should value app redundancy and consider it to be a critical feature of an app ecosystem for the system to function reliably over a long period of time.