A Perspective of Domestic Appstores Compared with Global Appstores

In the open markets, the category, the proportion, downloading counts for the apps in an appstore are an important measure which would determine the success or failure of the appstore In this paper, we investigate and analyze domestic appstores compared with global appstores to vitalize Korea open markets To cope with this, the category, the ratios and the physical distribution state for the apps in the representative domestic and global appstores are investigated. As a result, we proposed that the ecological prospect of domestic appstores is better to approach the fine-grained category models as well as need to invest more in the apps development to go along with the flow of changes in the global open markets.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Dept. of Information Technology Eng., Gangnung-Wonju Nat’l University, Namwonro 901, Wonju-City, Kangwon Prov., Korea

   Byungkook Jeon

Editors and Affiliations

1. Hannam University, 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu, 306-791, Daejeon, South Korea

   Tai-hoon Kim

2. The Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, 43210-1275, Columbus, OH, USA

   Hojjat Adeli

3. Hannam University, 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu, 306-791, Daejeon, Korea

   Rosslin John Robles

4. Hannam University, 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu, Daejeon, Korea

   Maricel Balitanas

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