There’s a great article at Wired Gadget Lab on how Apple is culling not just over explicit apps but also those that are just simple apps that render normal mobile web sites.

Lots of companies have sprung up that can create apps from web sites or rss feeds. These so called “cookie-cutter” apps don’t do anything extra (for the user) that can’t be done by browsing the equivalent mobile web site.

Therein lies the problem with reporting the number of apps on each platforms’ app store. Many can just be browsing a web site or feed. [As an aside, many others are books or dictionaries that are essentially the same applications with different data.] However, now that the Apple App Store has so many apps, its possible for Apple to purge the store to ensure that only those that really should be apps, are apps.

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