How app stores will change by 2015

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App Store In The Year 2015 Marcin Rudolf, CTO,

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App  Store  In  The  Year  2015        

Marcin  Rudolf,  CTO,        

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Future-­‐Shaping  Problems  That  App  Stores  Face  

1.  Open  or  closed  app  distribu<on  model?  2.  App  Stores  do  not  enable  users  to  find  apps  they  

want.  3.  App  Stores  are  not  aware  of  user’s  situa<onal  

and  social  context.  

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From  Desktops  To  Gadgets  

•  Handheld  hardware  created  handheld  soJware.  

•  A  shiJ  from  consuming  informa<on  to  using  func<ons.  

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„Apps  In  The  Browser”  Not  Likely  To  Succeed  

•  For  most  people  there  is  no  return  to  the  desktop.  

•  We  need  „open  hardware”  first!  

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App  Discovery  Is  Unsolved  

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Less  than  0.1%  of  Apps  Generates  More  Than  50%  of  Monthly  Downloads  in  Jun  2012  

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Downloads  in  February  2013    Android  2,2  bln  iOS  1,87  bln  

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A  Long  Tail  Of  Apps  That  Are  Never  Found  

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How  it  really  looks  like   State  of  the  art    1.  Most  apps  are  never  

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2.  People  are  not  finding  what  they  want.    3.  SoluCon  to  this  problem  will  shape  the  future  app  store.    

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Content  Discovery  –  Books  &  Papers  

•  Fundamentally  books  &  papers  are  informa<on.  

•  We  have  thousands  of  years  of  experience  in  books  discovery;>  

•  Classifica<on  is  becoming  more  automa<c.  

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Content  Discovery  -­‐  Music  

•  Hundreds  of  self-­‐proclaimed  music  genres  exist.  

•  Music  is  very  social  and  self-­‐organising  which  is  leveraged  by  last.fm  and  similar  services.  

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Intelligent  App  Store  •  App  is  a  new  type  of  content  – An  app  is  a  piece  of  soJware  that  carries  on  a  very  specific  ac<on  in  a  short  <me.  

– An  app  is  defined  by  what  it  does.  •  App  Store  must  learn  what  apps  can  do  for  humans  and  how  apps  can  be  linked  together.  

•  With  close  to  2  mln.  apps  exis<ng  and  85  000  new  apps  each  month  this  process  must  be  automa<c.  

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Finding  What  Apps  Can  Do  

Machine  learning  algorithms  will:  

•  Find  all  possible  app  func<ons.  

•  Automa<cally  assign  each  app  to  one  or  more  func<on.  

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Showing  What’s  Out  There  

•  What’s  out  there  in  music?  

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Search  Box  Is  Too  Hard  For  Average  User  

General  Category  Queries    

“music”,  “movies”,  “chat”  

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“Inspire  Me”  Queries    

“games”,  “fun”,  “free”  

Specific  AcCon  Queries    

“crop  photos”,  “block  calls”,  “view  movies”  

Most  users  look  for  general  app  categories    

Some  users  want  to  be  inspired:  to  find  a  cool  app  or  a  new  game  

 A  small  minority  look  for  a  specific  func<on  

How  People  Search  For  Apps?   The  Implica<ons  

Source:  2  years  of  XYO’s  query  log  data  

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A  Rich  User  Context  Is  Available  

•  The  device  you  are  using  knows  what  you  do  and  where  you  are.  

•  Social  services  know  who  you  are  and  what  and  whom  you  like.  

•  You  are  typically  giving  this  informa<on  away,  disregarding  any  privacy  concerns.  

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Facebook  Graph  Search:  An  Early  Example  Of  Social  Content  Discovery  

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User  As  A  Query  

What  if  we  map  what  you  and  your  friends  like  to  what  apps  in  app  store  can  do  for  you?  

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App  Store  2015  

•  A  mul<tude  of  „Walled  Gardens”  •  With  deep  understanding  what  humans  can  do  with  apps.  

•  With  intelligent  algorithms  which  make  long  tail  apps  available.  

•  With  deep  knowledge  of  user’s  situa<onal  and  social  context  that  delivers  apps  seamlessly.  

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Thank  You!  

…and  see  all  the  above  in  ac<on  hap://next.xyo.net/betasignup