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		collyw on May 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We indexed some top mobile apps and the SDKs they ... Is this an indication of anything other than popularity. With programming languages, the general rule seems to be the worst win in the popularity contests (VB, PHP, MySQL come to mind).

IamFermat on May 23, 2016 [–]

I think it depends. You can draw some take aways if major apps are using a particular SDK - stability for example. Think about scaling. If uber has your SDK and you are logging events, you probably need a fairly meaningful infrastructure to do that.

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