Cross-Market Platform Competition in Mobile App Economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuke Zennyo
Keyword(s):  
Mobile App ◽  
Platform Competition ◽  
App Economy

scholarly journals Appscapes in everyday life

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (69) ◽  
pp. 029-051
Author(s):  
Signe Sophus Lai ◽  
Sofie Flensburg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Online Tracking ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Infrastructure Studies ◽  
App Economy

It has long been acknowledged that the use of ‘free’ mobile apps comes at a price,but few empirical studies have looked into this supposed trade-off. This articlecombines qualitative interviews with mappings of infrastructures for dataficationin order to study the implications of mobile app usage from the perspectiveof individual users. It analyses users’ understanding of online tracking, maps theinfrastructural tenets of mobile datafication, and finds a disconnect between whatusers believe happens to their data and the actual data harvesting and distributionmechanisms of their apps. We thereby argue that users’ resigned attitudes shouldbe understood in light of the material conditions of the app economy and, as such,that user and infrastructure studies should join forces in exploring and enhancingusers’ agency, empowerment and emancipation.

scholarly journals MAPS: Scaling Privacy Compliance Analysis to a Million Apps

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Zimmeck ◽  
Peter Story ◽  
Daniel Smullen ◽  
Abhilasha Ravichander ◽  
Ziqi Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile App ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Privacy Policies ◽  
Android Apps ◽  
Extensive Analysis ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
System Maps ◽  
Google Play ◽  
App Economy ◽  
Compliance Issue

Abstract The app economy is largely reliant on data collection as its primary revenue model. To comply with legal requirements, app developers are often obligated to notify users of their privacy practices in privacy policies. However, prior research has suggested that many developers are not accurately disclosing their apps’ privacy practices. Evaluating discrepancies between apps’ code and privacy policies enables the identification of potential compliance issues. In this study, we introduce the Mobile App Privacy System (MAPS) for conducting an extensive privacy census of Android apps. We designed a pipeline for retrieving and analyzing large app populations based on code analysis and machine learning techniques. In its first application, we conduct a privacy evaluation for a set of 1,035,853 Android apps from the Google Play Store. We find broad evidence of potential non-compliance. Many apps do not have a privacy policy to begin with. Policies that do exist are often silent on the practices performed by apps. For example, 12.1% of apps have at least one location-related potential compliance issue. We hope that our extensive analysis will motivate app stores, government regulators, and app developers to more effectively review apps for potential compliance issues.

1195-P: Improving Diabetes Self-Management with a Mobile App: Results of a Pilot Program at a Safety Net Hospital System

Diabetes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1195-P
Author(s):  
ROOPA KALYANARAMAN MARCELLO ◽  
JOHANNA DOLLE ◽  
SHARANJIT KAUR ◽  
SAWKIA R. PATTERSON ◽  
NICHOLA DAVIS
Keyword(s):  
Safety Net ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Pilot Program ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Safety Net Hospital

India Goes Digital..Smartphone is the New Shopping Destination

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Shankar Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Online Shopping ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Shopping Experience ◽  
User Friendly

Despite being in nascent stage m-commerce is gaining momentum in India. The explosive growth of smart-phone users has made India much loved business destination for whole world. Indian internet user is becoming the second largest in the world next to China surpassing US, which throws open plenty of e-commerce opportunities, not only for Indian players, offshore players as well. Mobile commerce is likely to overtake e-commerce in the next few years, spurred by the continued uptrend in online shopping and increasing use of mobile apps.The optimism comes from the fact that people accessing the Internet through their mobiles had jumped 33 per cent in 2014 to 173 million and is expected to grow 21 per cent year-on-year till 2019 to touch 457 million. e-Commerce brands are eyeing on the mobile app segment by developing user-friendly and secure mobile apps offering a risk-free and easy shopping experience to its users. Budget 4G smart phones coupled with affordable plans, can very well drive 4G growth in India.

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