Oh. MY. GOSH! ROTFLMAO! That's what has your panties in a wad causing you all these tizzy fits and name calling and accusing people of being liars?!?!? You are an idiot!
That is NOT any kind of Apple App Store!
That is a mere sampling of the Apps that will be IN the iTunes Apple Watch App Store WHEN Apple makes it go live! You are not on Apple's sales site at all! Did you not notice there are no price tags or download buttons? SHEESH!
This is just more proof of your total and complete abysmal chasm of ignorance of what your are blithering about! I haven't had a good laugh like this in months!
THIS is what an Apple App Store looks like:
LOL! I can just see someone reading a work by Rene Descartes or Leo Tolstoy on their watch!
/facepalm
In a note to employees Cook said, "congratulations to everyone who has worked so hard for years to help this product reach our customers". He also revealed that over 1,000 third-party apps have been submitted to the App Store so far.
Then goes on to say:
Cook didn't reveal the names of any of the submissions in the note and it's also worthwhile to bear in mind Apple isn't guaranteed to let all the submissions through to the shop front.
I surmised that the article title was simply an exercise in journalistic malpractice by the reporter. There's no attribution of that claim to Tim Cook in the article. That comes from you telling me you heard him say it.
If that's not the app store, then at this point nobody outside of Apple knows how many have been approved. We'll know how many there are when the actual app store opens (and it may yet turn out to be less than 1000), but conveniently, no one can verify how many were "already waiting for you" when that article was published.