This type of article comes out a few times a year.

Comparing to the Web. How many new web sites are brought up each day, and out of those how many will gain significant traffic, and generate any significant revenue?

But finding Apps is hard? Yes it could be better, but you can use the Web to your harts content to promote your App which is searchable, assuming that's the problem.

This makes me think of the guy who did the Carrot weather App. An independent developer that took an over saturated category and did something unique.

At the same time thousands of weather Apps, that all look like clones of each other where submitted to the App Store, and nobody cares, but the problem is the App Store right?