Apple products are for people who like to play it safe
In the tablet/smartphone space I’ve generally been of the opinion that the number of apps is a bogus metric. I can’t possibly use more than a handful, and generally the most often used ones, email, calendar, etc. they all have. But I recently I read the post-counter-post by David and Jason of 37Signals which opened my eyes. The following excerpt sums it all up: Now you could argue that they could do all these things if the platform only had 50,000, 10,000, 5,000 apps. And maybe they could. You could do a lot on your Mac in the 90s, but a shitload of people bought Windows machines instead because there was more software available on Windows. They wanted to know that if they walked into the computer store, just about anything they bought would work on their Windows machine. Rational or not, people buy into safety. That’s why 200,000 apps matter. It’s the safety of knowing whatever app you might eventually want will be available to you, even if you never buy it. That’s what ma