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App store

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. "How Software Installation & Package Managers Work On Linux". How-To Geek.

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