the average iphone user only uses about 25 apps per month.
it’ll be far less for the watch.
The significance of over a thousand apps (later to be THOUSANDS) is not that people will load the thousand ... but ... that the consumer has almost infinite choices to fit just about any need you could imagine. Each person will have a different selection.
Having said that, I decided to take a quick look on my iPad (for a comparison) to see how many apps I’ve got there. It lists 383 Apps!
I don’t actually use all 383, so I’m going to work down the list and get rid of some. I’ll probably end up with 200 I think. And it’s not that if you have one of a “kind” of app, that’s all you need. It doesn’t work that way. For example, I have about 10 weather apps. Each one has slightly different features and I’ll rotate to different ones, depending on what I want at the time. So it’s pretty easy to end up with 200 apps and use them all.
But they are not the SAME 25 apps.
But of those 25 apps an iPhone user uses per month, there’s about 5 that are used _frequently_, ones that the user is getting tired of having to dig a phone out to use.