When you have 300.000 or so apps and a (somewhat arbitrarily) curated market, then yes, you have the most quality apps in terms of sheer numbers. After a point, though, it becomes meaningless. What is the practical difference between having 25.000 and 300.000 apps?

It's gotten ridiculous. Recently I read an article in gizmodo lambasting the blackberry appworld that it has "only" 25,000 apps, calling it an arid desert or something similar. O RLY?

Personally, I'd prefer to have a naturally capable and well-rounded platform than having a metric ****ton of apps to supplement missing functionality. Maemo, Meego/ Harmattan and WebOS are very good examples of these. We don't need skype/ im apps, they are built right in. We don't need facebook/twitter clients, the browsers are fine (at least it was when I still had a FB account; no idea how bloated the site has now become). The same goes for all the apps that function as fronts for websites. The same, of course, goes for office/ acrobat reader compatibility. The only things I personally need are a good note-taker, a voice recorder, organising apps, and a few more rather easy to find stuff. My greatest worry about the N9 was built-in office support; now that I know it has it, I'm golden.

As for games... well, I don't really play games, at least not the high powered ones that require dual-core phones. I love mahjong on the N900, and similar mind games: sudoku, chess, freeciv, open TTD, etcetera, etcetera