Understanding the impact of mobile app markets on software practice

了解移动应用市场对软件实践的影响

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-04618
• 负责人: Nagappan, Meiyappan
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=634518
• 关键词: Understanding; impact; mobile; app; markets

Recent market studies predict that the global mobile app economy is expected to be worth $143 billion by end of 2016. However, unlike traditional software, the distribution mechanism for software applications on mobile devices (or mobile apps) is very different - they are released through app markets (e.g., Google Play, or Apple’s App store). Such app markets have changed the way software developers interact with users, the way software is released, and the way users consume the software. There are three types of developers that belong to the app market ecosystem: (a) the developer that builds and releases the apps (eg., Rovio Entertainment that released Angry Birds), (b) the developers that build software libraries that are used across many different apps (eg., the Facebook SDK library), and (c) the developers that build and maintain the app store (eg., Google/BlackBerry).

最近的市场研究预测，到2016年底，全球移动应用经济预计将达到1430亿美元。然而，与传统软件不同，移动设备上的软件应用程序(或移动应用程序)的分发机制非常不同-它们是通过应用程序市场(例如，Google Play或苹果的应用程序商店)发布的。这样的应用程序市场改变了软件开发商与用户互动的方式、软件发布的方式以及用户消费软件的方式。有三种类型的开发者属于应用市场生态系统：(A)构建和发布应用的开发者(例如发布《愤怒的小鸟》的Rovio Entertainment)，(B)构建可在许多不同应用上使用的软件库的开发者(例如Facebook SDK库)，以及(C)构建和维护应用商店的开发者(例如Google/BlackBerry)。