'The future's bright, the future's mobile': A study of Apple and Google mobile application developers

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 964-981

  Bergvall Kåreborn, Birgitta ^a   Howcroft, Debra ^a,b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Android; Apple; Google; iPhone; IT developers; IT workforce; mobile application development and distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890017865     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017012474709     Document Type: Article

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