A Longitudinal Study of the Google App Market

被引：23

作者：

Carbunar, Bogdan ^{[1
]}

Potharaju, Rahul ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Florida Int Univ, Miami, FL 33199 USA

[2] Microsoft, Cloud & Informat Serv Lab, Redmond, WA USA

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN SOCIAL NETWORKS ANALYSIS AND MINING (ASONAM 2015) | 2015年

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D O I：

10.1145/2808797.2808823

中图分类号：

TP18 [人工智能理论];

学科分类号：

081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;

摘要：

Recently emerged app markets provide a centralized paradigm for software distribution in smartphones. The difficulty of massively collecting app data has led to a lack a good understanding of app market dynamics. In this paper we seek to address this problem, through a detailed temporal analysis of Google Play, Google's app market. We perform the analysis on data that we collected daily from 160,000 apps, over a period of six months in 2012. We report often surprising results. For instance, at most 50% of the apps are updated in all categories, which significantly impacts the median price. The average price does not exhibit seasonal monthly trends and a changing price does not show any observable correlation with the download count. In addition, productive developers are not creating many popular apps, but a few developers control apps which dominate the total number of downloads. We discuss the research implications of such analytics on improving developer and user experiences, and detecting emerging threat vectors.

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