RIM seriously needs to tap into the creative base of users that are on Mac OS X's platform for computers (not iPhone as that OS X is stripped and specific to touch user interface only).

Right now and always prior … Apple has advertised the iPhone simply as that … a PHONE not a smartphone; mostly because without jailbreaking its not up to tasks (pun intended as Tasks on iPhone blows chunks)! iPhone is a glorified feature phone at best. you NEED those massive amounts of applications to try thru murky waters just to get that one app to augment just 1 feature; let alone pay for it and yet another desktop app that allows for sync'ing. Sorry but for now that platform is a FOOLS game and easy cash grab for developers.

PS: I have nothing against developers that work hard to offer sound quality apps to end users or to business/corporations – but those GREEDY developers that complain about changes in advertising for their apps, by Apple, when they've already made a killing living off those sales – original FaceBook iPhone app developer, ahem – then its not really worth it. I pay for quality apps that enhance my life, tasks, and goals – another end to a mean – not for show & tell

RIM seriously needs to tap into the creative base of users that are on Mac OS X's platform for computers (not iPhone as that OS X is stripped and specific to touch user interface only).

Right now and always prior … Apple has advertised the iPhone simply as that … a PHONE not a smartphone; mostly because without jailbreaking its not up to tasks (pun intended as Tasks on iPhone blows chunks)! iPhone is a glorified feature phone at best. you NEED those massive amounts of applications to try thru murky waters just to get that one app to augment just 1 feature; let alone pay for it and yet another desktop app that allows for sync'ing. Sorry but for now that platform is a FOOLS game and easy cash grab for developers.

PS: I have nothing against developers that work hard to offer sound quality apps to end users or to business/corporations – but those GREEDY developers that complain about changes in advertising for their apps, by Apple, when they've already made a killing living off those sales – original FaceBook iPhone app developer, ahem – then its not really worth it. I pay for quality apps that enhance my life, tasks, and goals – another end to a mean – not for show & tell

I think it's more that Apple doesn't allow for apps which alter their system. The Iphone lacks a lot of utilities but Apple doesn't fully allow developers to address this issue. If Apple allowed apps that could do this, I'm positive there would be a lot of demand for it amongst Iphone users. At the moment, the amount of customization you can do native on the Iphone is next to null when compared to what's offered native on Blackberry OS.

As for the notification system, I have used both and Blackberry's notification system is miles ahead of the Iphone in terms of allowing the user to customize how they would like to be notified for nearly every imaginable situation, whereas the Iphone is pretty limited in this respect.

The point of the article I don't think was meant to show which platform generates the most money from apps. I believe it was meant to show what is the nature of users on each platform. So an Iphone would be more of a media/gaming device, whereas a BlackBerry more of a productivity device.

It shows you the strengths of each platform. An iphone in my opinion would be horrible for productivity just like a Blackberry is horrible for gaming. To each their own.

I mean compare it to your BlackBerry list: It doesn't have the memory leaks of a BB, so Memory Booster isn't needed and it's notification system is so well done, you don't need to have a special notification program like BeBuzz.

Comparing it to the Android apps, Backup is great, but doesn't the iPhone back up through ITunes? Again, through the wonders of limiting the device, you don't need power management functions since it's already streamlined into the OS.

Overall, the list pretty much boils down the fact that most people use their iPhones to run the basics (Voice/Text/Browsing) and play games. This is obviously making Apple and the paid developers some money. BlackBerry has been around so long that there are millions of free games to play already and Android is too new to try to compare it.

That said, what would be truly interesting would be to compare the number of free apps to paid apps downloaded – then we would see what platform is really generating money for the developers and what utilities are being used that the OS's lack.