App Installs on iOS and Android: Cross Platform Spillover

11 Pages Posted: 9 Apr 2016

Date Written: April 5, 2016

Abstract

There are two main platforms for mobile applications, Apple iOS and Android. Using data from 6 applications with hundreds of millions of users, we first show that the shocks that impact installs on one platform are correlated with the shocks on the other platform with an average correlation coefficient of 0.374. A simultaneous equations model to measure the impact of cross platform installs shows that Android adoption drives iOS adoption with average elasticity coefficient of 0.924. However, we find no evidence that iOS adoption has an impact on Android adoption. Several managerial implications for advertisers and application developers are discussed.

Keywords: mobile apps, cross platform, simultaneous equations model, seemingly unrelated regression

JEL Classification: C3, C32, M3, M31

Suggested Citation

Farahat, Ayman and Bhatia, Tarun, App Installs on iOS and Android: Cross Platform Spillover (April 5, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2759557 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2759557

Ayman Farahat (Contact Author)

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Sunnyvale, CA 94089
United States

Tarun Bhatia

Independent ( email )

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