© Hagop Panosian 2017

Hagop Panosian, Learn iOS Application Distribution, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2683-4_1

1. The Smartphone Landscape

Hagop Panosian

(1)Yerevan, Armenia

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To understand the evolution of the app industry, we need to first look at the evolution of the devices that host them: smartphones.

Smartphones, as well all know, are taking over the world, or have already done so. There are currently two billion smartphone users worldwide, each of whom has an average of 27 apps on their device and checks some of them between 35 and 75 times a day.

Apps are intricately tied to the capabilities and features of the devices that host them, and ...

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