Digital App Marketplace

A Digital App Marketplace is a digital marketplace that facilitates the discovery, installation, and integration of digital apps.

AKA: App Store.
Context:
- It can (typically) host a wide variety of apps across different categories such as productivity, entertainment, communication, and more.
- It can (often) offer curated collections and recommendations based on user preferences, usage patterns, and peer reviews.
- It can range from hosting free apps to offering premium applications with additional features or services.
- It can enable users to manage their app subscriptions, updates, and configurations from a centralized location.
- It can provide developers with tools and guidelines to create, publish, and monetize their apps on the platform.
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Example(s):
- an Apple App Store that showcases various apps for iOS devices, providing users with a streamlined app discovery and installation process.
- a Google Play Store that offers a vast array of apps for Android devices, including games, productivity tools, and media apps.
- a MS Teams App Store that ... MS Teams apps.
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Counter-Example(s):
- Physical retail stores that sell software on CDs or other physical media, requiring manual installation on devices.
- Standalone websites that offer individual app downloads without a centralized platform for discovery and management.
See: Package Manager, Digital Distribution, Application Software.

References

(Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_store Retrieved:2024-6-5.
- An app store, also called an app marketplace or app catalog, is a type of digital distribution platform for computer software called applications, often in a mobile context. Apps provide a specific set of functions which, by definition, do not include the running of the computer itself. Complex software designed for use on a personal computer, for example, may have a related app designed for use on a mobile device. Today apps are normally designed to run on a specific operating system—such as the contemporary iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux or Android—but in the past mobile carriers had their own portals for apps and related media content. An app store is a restricted, commercial version of a package manager.