Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
Even if you had carefully laid out stats on the app store, it's still
utterly useless.
If apps available on a platform was an indication of quality, we'd all
be using windows instead of mac os x, which just goes to show how
stupid that argument is.
The question is: How many _quality_ apps are available? Pick
everything you'd like to do with your phone, and check if there's a
quality app for it.
If yes, then the platform is great. If no, then it isn't. Even if
there are 100 million apps available. If they all sucks and/or don't
do what you need, that's what counts.
I wasn't talking of quality at all - I was talking of popularity, and my
argument, rather than argue the superiority of a competitor on the
other, is instead aimed in dismissing false assertions based on
superficial comparisons.
This was born a few days ago in a local Apple forum that I attend, and
somebody said (can't recall the numbers, so just putting them at random)
that Android was not so bad because it already got 20.000 apps in the
store. An iPhone advocate answered that it was pale in comparisong with
the 500.000 present in the Apple store; hence Apple store was better. My
point is that, while more apps -> more freedom of choice and creativity
of use, most users hardly know and use all of them. Thus, if by knowing
usage statistics you learn that 90% of Android people use only 100 out
of 20.000 apps (just some number at random) and that also 90% of Apple
people use 100 out of 500.000 apps, then it's useless to compare the
store sizes, because they both fit in the same way most of users' demand.
Also, knowing what people use most would be interesting to learn whether
one platform possibly allows to do things that the other doesn't.
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