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Geoffrey Challen
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@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Apps}
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@@ -12,11 +12,9 @@ problem: what is the value of an app?
 All smartphone users intuitively realize that smartphone apps differ in
 value---an email client, for example, is probably more valuable than a app
 that makes farting sounds. But is it possible to quantify these subjective
-distinctions and produce a value measure?
-
-To argue that this is possible we present two experiments that elucidate
-smartphone app value in the form of both ordinal and cardinal utilities,
-respectively:
+distinctions and produce a value measure? To argue that this is possible we
+present two experiments that elucidate smartphone app value in the form of
+both ordinal and cardinal utilities:
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@@ -72,12 +70,12 @@ videoconferencing app is not. Ultimately, all the energy consumption
 comparison truly reveals is that the two apps do different things---which we
 already knew.
-Using energy consumption alone even makes apples-to-apples comparison of the same app
-difficult. Given an app that consumes twice as much energy on Alice's
-smartphone than on Bob's, the question of why is left unanswered by pure
-energy measures. Even if usage time can be used to normalize the comparison
-to the power consumed, power consumption alone cannot incorporate differences
-due to the different app features or configurations used by Alice and Bob.
+Using energy consumption alone even makes apples-to-apples comparison of the
+same app difficult. Given an app that consumes twice as much energy on
+Alice's smartphone than on Bob's, the question of why is left unanswered by
+pure energy measures. Even if usage time can be used to normalize the
+comparison, power consumption alone cannot incorporate differences due to the
+different app features or configurations used by Alice and Bob.
 By computing value and, thus, energy efficiency, we can overcome these
 weaknesses. A value measure should allow us to compare the efficiency of two