Too bad about 93,000 are garbage.
You tried them all?
It would be more helpful if you posted reviews then.
Too bad about 93,000 are garbage.
Umm you do know that Android market is collecting more Apps per day than the Apple App store.
You are being way to kind there. If more than 1000 apps on the market are not garbage I would be surprised.
Umm you do know that Android market is collecting more Apps per day than the Apple App store.
This story motivated me to go to the iTunes store and poke around. I got real confused on the Top Grossing iPad Apps page. A significant number of the 200 top-grossing apps were Free. I'm assuming that in-App purchases count for grossing figure. But that's like the movies counting popcorn sales in their box office figures -- isn't it?
It took Andriod 30 months to get to 200,000 apps. It took the App store 21 months.
It took the App store 16 months to get to 100k apps it took Android 24 months. At this rate the iPad is outpacing both app stores.
For many years the Apple crowd said that "the amount of programs (you know, the old name for applications) isn't important, it's whether the platform has the programs you need/use", back in the days when there was very little SW available for the Mac. Thankfully for Apple the applications (mainly DTP and music at the time) were enough to keep the platform alive.
No person on the planet *needs* 100k apps, or 10k apps or even 1k apps. 10 major apps and a few hundred minor ones would over 90% of people's requirements.
I'm sure the iPad apps are on average better than Android tablet apps (quality of course being much harder to measure). But this numbers game is as stupid as the Cold War arms race - it doesn't matter if you have 1 million apps or 100 000 apps, both are more than enough to cover any conceivable requirement.
You are being way to kind there. If more than 1000 apps on the market are not garbage I would be surprised.
Umm you do know that Android market is collecting more Apps per day than the Apple App store.
Too bad about 93,000 are garbage.
And about 100 good ones. Maybe even less.
You tried them all?
It would be more helpful if you posted reviews then.
And about 100 good ones. Maybe even less.
What a world we live in where Apple's 100k apps are all excellent, but a rivals that has more new apps a day are all awful.
That is the inherent problem with have free or low cost apps with an online distribution model, too much clutter and junk apps and very few gems. QC for these apps lack, since Apple is trying to make sure these apps do not violate any of they own guidelines, restrictions and laws to care about QC. This allows Apple to report x amount of apps on the app store and demonstrate how successful it really is why in reality only a few apps are really worth anyones time.
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It is more then just scaling up, there are a lot of iPad specific UI elements.1)How many of these 100,000 apps are simply iPhone/iPad/Touch universal apps?
That would be silly. So Netflix should not count as an iPad app? Kindle? The interface is completely different.2)How many of these apps are simply a recompiled iPhone/Touch app so it appears as an iPad specific app? For example, as a developer I make 3 simple changes to my current iPhone app so that it is now considered an iPad app (maybe screen resolution is 1 item). Kinda unfair to call that an iPad-specific app. Maybe they should count only apps that exist as iPad apps but do NOT have a sister iPhone/Touch app under a similar name.
I listed my favorites (that I actually own), but I have only had an ipad since March.3)Although 100,000 is nice, how many are really worth even owning on an iPad? 100? Seriously. Same can be said for the iPhone stuff...nice that there are a bazillion fart apps and 98 different flavors of Angry Birds and 200 Restaurant Apps and 769 Funny Sounds apps...but I'd like to see a little more high-value apps...whether they cost $2 or $12.
4)Out of the tens of millions of iPad owners out there, how about a figure on # of iPad-only apps that have been reviewed by more than 500 people? I find a LOT of app store stuff has less than 500 reviews. Since it's a closed app store society of tens of millions of people, most apps should have more than 500 reviews. I don't think Apple should force a review but I find it difficult to remember to go back and review an app. All apps should really have a "Review Me" button that appears on it's 20th launch or somthing...win/win for everyone to get feedback.
Here are my 50+ favorites on my iPad. I am sure I left something off. I have some other good Apps that duplicate functionality with my favorite App and I really don't use. Each of these is designed for iPad and is not a scaled up iPhone app. I originally wanted to do 50, but went a bit over. Since a couple are basic utility Apps, it will balance out.
My list is in no particular order. I would love to see what some other's like.
- Evernote
- Pages
- Numbers
- Keynote
- Goodreader
- iMovie
- GarageBand
- iSSH
- Netflix
- ABC App
- HBO Go
- Discovery
- Crackle
- WebEx
- Note Taker HD
- TouchDraw
- Instapaper
- Kindle
- The Civil War Today
- Dead Space
- Infinity Blade
- Fruit Ninja HD
- Atari's Greatest Hits
- Real Racing 2 HD
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12
- Bloomberg+
- Newsweek
- Popular Science (Interface Still needs help, but good)
- Wired (See PopSci)
- Pulse
- Zite
- NBA
- MLB
- Contraptions
- Order and Chaos
- Osmos
- iDisplay
- VNC (I actually use iSSH more for this, but it is a pretty good app)
- Science 360 for iPad
- GoToMeeting
- Bank of America
- E-Trade
- FaceTime
- TurboTax 2010
- Hulu
- Vevo (Only Really buggy App I Have though)
- National Geographic World Atlas
- Wolfram (This is the only one so far that is a front-end for a web site, but provides a lot of value)
- Google Earth (See Wolfram)
- Trainz (Not sure how I forgot that, so cool)
- 2Go
- Cisco AnyConnect
- IM+ Pro
- Digits
- SlingPlayer (Dang another great App that did not show up till the end)
- Nature's Human Genome at 10 (Somewhat Limited, but very cool)
- Our Choice (Same as above)
- Peek (One of my new favorites, great if you need to study anything)
Less.
Go ahead, delete every App store app from your device that has even just one 1-star rating or 1 negative review, or more. See what you have left.
That's why a store needs 100k apps that someone thinks are bad.