On Feb 4, 5:48 am, Robert Casto <[email protected]> wrote: > Really, who needs 140,000 apps when 10,000 good ones will do.
If you tell Microsoft that Office is bloated and everybody just uses ten percent of the functionality, then Microsoft replies: "Yeah, but everybody uses a different ten percent!" There's some truth to that, especially since "good" and "useful" are subjective categories. Sure, there's a standard set of mainstream apps (Facebook, Twitter clients, Amazon, eBay, IMDB and so on), but then there's some niche apps that are useful to some small portion of users (like broken parking meters in New York, though that may be for a wider audience: http://www.nycbrokenmeters.com/). And the more apps are out there, the higher the chance that your niche app will be out there. Most of us probably just have, say ten thousand music tracks max, yet the online music stores have north of five million tracks. Now even if we assume that 80% of them don't sell a single copy per year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Tail#Criticism), that still leaves 990,000 tracks out there that you don't have but somebody else has. But all of that means nothing to certain degree because we're talking about consumer devices, and consumers have been trained for decades that "more = better". So when deciding between two phones and everything else being equal, the average consumer will buy the one with more apps. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
