<story><title>Ten apps is all I need</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2959-ten-apps-is-all-i-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhh</author><text>I&apos;ve heard that mentioned before, but that&apos;s not what I&apos;m seeing. I don&apos;t use 10 random apps from the App Store. I use the 10 default apps that come with the phone. Except for Twitter, I consider the 3rd party apps to be completely expendable without materially affecting my enjoyment of the phone.&lt;p&gt;From other &quot;just a few apps on a daily basis&quot; users I&apos;ve seen, they tend to use the default apps as well. It&apos;s not a random cross section of the 200K apps in the App Store.</text></item><item><author>m0nastic</author><text>I feel like he&apos;s missing the point of an ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s fine that he only uses a few apps on his phone, and that most other people probably do the same.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that those &quot;few apps&quot; that most other people use aren&apos;t the same &quot;few apps&quot; that he uses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>achompas</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Except for Twitter...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a variation of m0nitaly&apos;s point: I would say &quot;except for Instapaper, Reeder, and Twitter...&quot; and Jasber would say &quot;except for Rdio and RunKeeper...&quot;&lt;p&gt;Even if apps 1-10 are native, I&apos;m hanging onto my iPhone for numbers 11 and 12. The native iOS experience is great, but those two or three non-native apps make it sublime.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ten apps is all I need</title><url>http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2959-ten-apps-is-all-i-need</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dhh</author><text>I&apos;ve heard that mentioned before, but that&apos;s not what I&apos;m seeing. I don&apos;t use 10 random apps from the App Store. I use the 10 default apps that come with the phone. Except for Twitter, I consider the 3rd party apps to be completely expendable without materially affecting my enjoyment of the phone.&lt;p&gt;From other &quot;just a few apps on a daily basis&quot; users I&apos;ve seen, they tend to use the default apps as well. It&apos;s not a random cross section of the 200K apps in the App Store.</text></item><item><author>m0nastic</author><text>I feel like he&apos;s missing the point of an ecosystem.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s fine that he only uses a few apps on his phone, and that most other people probably do the same.&lt;p&gt;The problem is that those &quot;few apps&quot; that most other people use aren&apos;t the same &quot;few apps&quot; that he uses.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bradleyland</author><text>No argument on the app usage side of things. I think if you drew a giant venn diagram of actual app usage on iOS, it&apos;d look like a giant circle with fuzzy edges, but I think that&apos;s missing the point. &quot;The platform&quot; isn&apos;t synonymous with apps. The platform is becoming more than what runs on your phone; quite the opposite.&lt;p&gt;Both Google and Apple have built the type of platforms being referred to when casting doubt on the future of MeeGo. The central feature of those platforms, up until about six months ago, was their capability to run applications. This is shifting quickly to the ability to store data in a way that is transparent to the user.&lt;p&gt;Google can, right now, give you seamless, transparent access to documents on a phone, tablet, or desktop computer with no thought or action from the user outside of logging in and browsing to the location of the document. There is no syncing. The same is true for email, calendar, and contacts. When iCloud ships this fall, Apple will be in the same position. What would it take for Nokia to bring MeeGo to that point?&lt;p&gt;This is &quot;the platform&quot; that I can&apos;t see Nokia building, and I believe it&apos;s going to set the bar for every major player in the space in the coming years.</text></comment>