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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted people's life aroundthe world, including how they interact with mobile technologies. In this paper,we seek to develop an understanding of how the dynamic trajectory of a pandemicshapes mobile phone users' experiences. Through the lens of app popularity, weapproach this goal from a cross-country perspective. We compile a datasetconsisting of six-month daily snapshots of the most popular apps in the iOS AppStore in China and the US, where the pandemic has exhibited distincttrajectories. Using this longitudinal dataset, our analysis provides detailedpatterns of app ranking during the pandemic at both category and individual applevels. We reveal that app categories' rankings are correlated with thepandemic, contingent upon country-specific development trajectories. Our workoffers rich insights into how the COVID-19, a typical global public healthcrisis, has influence people's day-to-day interaction with the Internet andmobile technologies.

A Tale of Two Countries: A Longitudinal Cross-Country Study of Mobile Users' Reactions to the COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of App Popularity