Heins: Size doesn't matter, of app stores that is
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"In my view it is really short-sighted to say, you have 600,000, you have 400,000 and you only have 100,000 apps, so you are not good. Look at how many actually get downloaded. …We don’t have 1,500 Solitaire apps. That is not what BlackBerry is about."-Thorsten Heins, CEO, RIM
While Apple and Google swing around the number of apps available in their respective app stores like a giant phallic symbol, Heins does have a valid point. How many of those 700,000 apps available for iOS or Android are actually installed by users, or actually serve a useful purpose? The problem for RIM is that the mainstream media and much of the smartphone buying public responds to size with bigger being perceived as better.
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