Iphone has been around for over three years. When it was first launched it had zero apps. You might want to remember that.

Additionally, many of those iphone 'apps' are either deeply localised (check the score for a particular school sports team), ringtones, video and books or things that Maemo does natively though the browser (like banking log-in).

I'm not saying we don't need more, creative, Wow apps, but I think you're being a little unfair. In the end, it's not all about the numbers. Or maybe it is for you? You want to be able to say "My app store has thousands of apps" whether or not they're any use?