Resumen
The growing popularity of the mobile solutions leads to the research different aspects of the sphere. The aim of this article is to analyze select mobile applications stores from the point of view of a user. The analysis was carried out for three the most popular stores: Google Play, App Store and Windows Phone Store. They were selected on the basis of operating systems included in mobile devices used by the customers of these stores. Efforts were made to discover the differences in the assessment of the shops by users with smartphones and tablets with working on three basic platforms currently operating systems: Android, iOS and Windows. The paper presents the results of a survey conducted on students and teaching staff, users of the services of mentioned stores. The paper covers the presentation of the assumptions of the study and research questions, the description of methodology, the analysis of the obtained findings and discussion. In the study, which is of qualitative character, the author analyzed the opinions of a sample of university students to evaluate the selected characteristics of mobile application websites by means of a standardized scoring method