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With 27 apps per device, iPhone customers aren't likely to stray
Just like the purchased .AAC music libraries that kept traditional iPod owners from straying to other MP3 players, the iPhone's apps are likely to help Apple keep its touch device customers loyal to its products. Here's why: read more
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With 27 apps per device, iPhone customers are likely to stay loyal
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — I did a little 4th grade math over at Computerworld this morning.  If Apple has distributed a billion applications and sold 37 million iPhones and iPod touches, that means that each device has an average of 27 apps.  Knowing people who haven't installed any apps as well as some who've filled their device up, there is a wide variance.  But what it does mean is that iPhone and iPod touch have a stickiness to them that might prove stickier that the original iPod platform with its AAC files.  Read more at Computerworld. ...

iPhone Apps: iPhone faithful stay onboard with 27 apps per device
Phones Review — ... Recently Apple reached the magic 1 Billion downloaded applications milestone, and that 37 million Apple iPhone and iPod Touch handsets have been sold which equates to an average of some 27 downloaded applications per device according to computerworld. ...

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