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There is a legitimate "existing library of apps / network effects" argument here, as well as an illegitimate "appeal to popularity" one.

At a certain point the numbers no longer matter in an app store. My phone is a guitar tuner, one of five available. If my devices store had twice the apps, I don't think I'd benefit much.

"Mac users were always defending the boutique, specialist, quality over quantity arguments on the desktop and then suddenly it was all a numbers game for a while there.".

The truth is, that the kind of people who say things like that are the kind of people who look for opportunities to argue about that kind of stuff and your statement reads like you have a clear bias. That's not a very objective perspective to my mind.

-sent from my iPad

If it makes you feel any better I use neither platform, I am an Ubuntu user

-sent from my Amiga

I'm not sure if your post was meant to be humorous or unintended irony.

Completely intentional.