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App Store, Marketplace, Play! An Analysis of Multi-Homing in Mobile Software Ecosystems

Sami Hyrynsalmi, Tuomas Mäkilä, Antero Järvi, Arho Suominen, Marko Seppänen, Timo Knuutila, App Store, Marketplace, Play! An Analysis of Multi-Homing in Mobile Software Ecosystems. In: Slinger Jansen, Jan Bosch, Carina Alves (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshops on Software Ecosystems, CEUR Workshop Proceedings 879, 59–72, CEUR-WS, 2012.

Abstract:

Multi-homing, a strategy where a developer is publishing products for multiple platforms, is studied in this paper using descriptive analysis. The data of over 850,000 applications and their developers were collected from Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace. The developers publishing for several software ecosystems were then identi ed. The fi ndings show that multi-homing is utilized by only a small set of developers. In addition, the applications available at several platforms do not seem to diff er by the type or the popularity from single-homing applications.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{inpHyMxJxSuSeKn12a,
  title = {App Store, Marketplace, Play!  An Analysis of Multi-Homing in Mobile Software Ecosystems},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshops on Software Ecosystems},
  author = {Hyrynsalmi, Sami and Mäkilä, Tuomas and Järvi, Antero and Suominen, Arho and Seppänen, Marko and Knuutila, Timo},
  volume = {879},
  series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  editor = {Jansen, Slinger and Bosch, Jan and Alves, Carina},
  publisher = {CEUR-WS},
  pages = {59–72},
  year = {2012},
  keywords = {application marketplace, multi-homing, software ecosystem},
}

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