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App store

This article is about the concept. For the store for most Android devices, see Google Play. For the store for Apple mobile apps, see App Store (Apple). For the store for Fire OS, see Amazon Appstore.

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.[1]

An app store is a restricted, commercial version of a package manager.[2]

  1. ^ "The Economics of Mobile Application Store (Wayback Machine version)". 2009-05-17. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012.
  2. ^ Hoffman, Chris (28 September 2016). "How Software Installation & Package Managers Work On Linux". How-To Geek.

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