Research-Article How to be a successful app developer: lessons from the simulation of an app ecosystem Soo Ling Lim, Peter J. Bentley Abstract App developers are constantly competing against each other to win more downloads for their apps. With hundreds of thousands of apps in these online stores, what strategy should a developer use to be successful? Should they innovate, make many similar apps, optimize their own apps or just copy the apps of others? Looking more deeply, how does a complex app ecosystem perform when developers choose to use different strategies? This paper investigates these questions using AppEco, the first Artificial Life model of mobile application ecosystems. In AppEco, developer agents build and upload apps to the app store; user agents browse the store and download the apps. A distinguishing feature of AppEco is the explicit modelling of apps as artefacts. In this work we use AppEco to simulate Apple's iOS app ecosystem and investigate common developer strategies, evaluating them in terms of downloads received, app diversity, and adoption rate. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2384697.2384698 The word “browse” in “user agents browse the store and download the apps.”, taken from TEXT, is a verb. The same word can also be used as a noun in sentence:
- A I stopped in several bookstores to ___.
- B I usually ___ the internet for a couple of hours each evening.
- C The brochure is well worth a ___.
- D There are plenty of biographies for him to ___ over.
- E I always ___ in an up-market antique shop.