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Why Do Users Install and Delete Apps? A Survey Study

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Software Business (ICSOB 2017)

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Practitioners on the area of mobile application development usually rely on set of app-related success factors, the majority of which are directly related to their economical/business profit (e.g., number of downloads, or the in-app purchases revenue). However, gathering also the user-related success factors, that explain the reasons why users choose, download, and install apps as well as the user-related failure factors that explain the reasons why users delete apps, might help practitioners understand how to improve the market impact of their apps. The objectives were to: identify (i) the reasons why users choose and installing mobile apps from app stores; (ii) the reasons why users uninstall the apps. A questionnaire-based survey involving 121 users from 26 different countries was conducted.

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    According to the terminology used in [4].

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  1. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden

    Selim Ickin, Kai Petersen & Javier Gonzalez-Huerta

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Ickin, S., Petersen, K., Gonzalez-Huerta, J. (2017). Why Do Users Install and Delete Apps? A Survey Study. In: Ojala, A., Holmström Olsson, H., Werder, K. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 304. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69191-6_13

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