To everyone who ranting and raving about how "no one needs" that many screens for apps and "no one runs 148 apps on a daily basis"...
Get off your high horse. Who are you to proclaim that apps have to be used on a daily, or even a regular basis? Just because you don't use or need that many apps doesn't mean others don't. They aren't you, so what gives you the right to judge them?
I think someone pointed out quite easily that using 148 apps on a daily basis requires you to either do nothing but use an iPhone all day or have a very strange usage of applications.
Even if you used every app for one minute each (including loading) it would take 2 hours 28 minutes to use every app for a minute. If this person did not sleep at all for 24 hours you could only use every app for about 9 mins each now if you take into account sleeping eating and other activities needed by humans you get to about 15/16 hours max usage based on average sleep/eating figures of 8 to 9 hours a day.
So you now have 15 possible hours a day, this equates to 6 minutes a day per app including loading and quitting the app.
I think we can safely say in a day to day example unless you use only your iPhone for 15 hours a day using 148 apps is a very very rare occurrence. Someone like a reviewer might hit this limit but even then the reviews would be pretty poor if they are tested and written in 6 minutes!
As we have done the maths (see above) a daily usage of 148 apps is very unlikely due to the time constraints of how long a day is and how much sleep is needed.
As for the number of quality apps in the App Store? Again, quality is relative and subjective. Making statements such as these implies that you are somehow "better" than those with 9 screens of apps. You're not, so just drop the attitude and concede that others are different than you are, and that's not a bad thing.
I would never say I am better than someone or something, however I do stand by my comment that only a very very small % of iPhones have 9 pages of installed apps.
I would also bet an even smaller (statistically close to zero I would guess) use all these apps on a daily basis, weekly maybe a few might but daily I think it is a physical impossibility born out by doing the maths. Sure I could run them all one per day for fun but even doing that would take the most part of an hour.
Unless you've done professional usability testing on the number of iPhone "pages" and how typical users use those screens and applications, you have no place making those statements.
I am basing this off a few points
1.) The PinchMedia stats that although yes they are not perfect and 100% related but they are based on 30,000,000 installed applications. Granted the stats are more based on usage of the apps but they give an idea on how many apps are used on a daily basis compare to once in a blue moon.
2.) Most iPhone users have not even noticed or commented (based on a small sample of google and forum searches on all the iPhone based sites) that the limit exists. The only posts I have found are from people with jail broken iPhones who decide to install every app every to try them out. Not normal usage I am sure you agree.
3.) The limit has not been mentioned on any 3.0 wish lists I have seen or searched for.
These three points lead me to conclude a very large percentage of users don't have anywhere near the limit of apps. If this was more of an issue we would have had this in the list if things we must need along with "cut and paste" and "tethering" etc.
I am not saying the odd person might be physically able to use 148 apps in one day but I am saying that they are in a very small minority, based on the lack of discussion of this limit being an issue in the iPhone press and forums.
As such I think that you can safely say that nobody really needs to use 148 apps per day, per week at a push someone might but agin this would mean people use a lot more iPhones apps than people use OS X or Windows apps as I don't meet many people who use 148 different apps *on a daily basis* on their desktops never mind on their phone.
Edwin
