[pdimitar]

> would you rather lose 30-40% of the apps you use and like, but the rest are faster? Or keep using everything you have now?

Dude, I agree to lose at least 80% of them, most are useless and with bad UX on top of that. Even worse: they are distracting.

At some point hiring the programmers to pour software by the kilogram becomes a visible problem -- when the businessmen wake up to the fact that the amortised cost of a job sloppily done (say, over the course of the next 2 years) is much higher than investing 20-30% more upfront. That's what the article is arguing for, IMO.