Originally Posted by
Maaz Mansori It's not a simply question of quality or quantity. It's more about meeting needs. I don't care whether there are 1,000 apps or 1,000,000 apps. What I care about is the ones that I care about are available and that they have adequate functionality. For example, a particular banking app might not be available or it might be available but it lacks an important feature such as mobile deposit that is available on other platforms. Now let's take a look at another app - Facebook Messenger. The WP version doesn't have chat heads nor support for voice-to-text but I could care less about either feature so the app meets my needs. New products come out and they have an associated app and only support iPhone and Android or even existing products like Honeywell security systems (there is a third party app with very limited functionality available). This is the kind of problem we have. Whether we have 5 Twitter apps or 100 Twitter apps is irrelevant as long as an official one with adequate functionality is there. Flashlights; we don't need 500 apps; we have more than enough that are sufficient.
Okay lets not talk about "personal" apps because each one of us banks differently and has different sort of needs for those apps. But then there are a few things as that article suggests that we all do.
For instance, photography, social, news, weather, emails, messenger apps - we have TONs of these lot. If most users have their favourites in these categories, of course we have more than enough apps. We have zillions of twitter apps, weather apps and photography apps, don't we? We have some real good quality apps for photography and weather, some even exclusive to WP!
Talking about Facebook Messenger - I think it is a perception issue we all have coming to WP. Chat heads for example, we all think, it is the app that lacks it but in reality it could be the OS that limits it. Yes, we could do with some call functionality and generally
function-parity.