Table 5.
Search year | Google Play26 | Apple iTunes27 | BlackBerry World28 | Microsoft Store29 | Opera Mobile Store30 | Total |
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2013 | 16/46 | 5/16 | 0/0 | 2/2 | 1/1 | 24/65 |
2016 | 14/115 | 11/30 | 0/0 | 2/2 | 0/0 | 27/147 |
The commercial app reviewed in the original paper in 201325—Osteoarthritis of Knee—was not available in our search in 2016. When we used the link provided by the authors, it returned an error message notifying that the app is not available in the United States. Based on the authors’ affiliation information, we assume that they had access to app stores available in Europe where as we were able to search app stores available in the United States.