Out of all of the apps available on the Maemo platform, I use about 8 of them: Evince, Privoxy, Tear (god I love Tear), Xournal (I install this first), MPlayer, Fring, Skype, DialCentral... ok, that's about it.

On my iPhone, about 10 - two of which are games.

I'm not too worried about the number of apps. I just like quality apps that do what's needed.