"Less is more" why big app numbers aren't everything
Much like megapixels or megahertz, huge application store numbers don't tell the whole story. The huge application numbers both Apple and Google advertise for their platforms fail to address the quality and the usefulness of those applications, and sucker in many users who don't realize what story those numbers really tell. Tom Waelti outlines his views on why more isn't always better: A ridiculous race is going on in the world of Smartphones, with each competitor boasting about the number of available apps for his platform. With Apple talking of 200,000 apps and Android claiming 50,000 apps (similar to what Palm offered in earlier years, and probably similar to Symbian), a new platform such as Maemo 5 sometimes faces a difficult stand, with casual users coming from other platforms complaining about too few apps (only hundreds...)