| I'm glad someone brought this up. (I'm the author of the FastCo piece.) I wasn't sure if Samsung's claim of 1,000 apps included watchfaces, so I went through the Galaxy store and counted them by hand. The results (sections may be off by a few numbers as I was counting kind of quickly): 108 clocks
11 health
21 finance
211 lifestyle
17 social networking
129 entertainment
171 utilities
TOTAL = 668
Note that the actual number is lower, since several apps were repeated across multiple sections and I didn't subtract them from the total. So, Samsung does include watch faces, but the ratio of apps:faces is much greater. As for the actual number not being 1,000 apps, I'm guessing Samsung is counting apps for different languages that wouldn't appear in the US store. I wasn't sure whether to get into this level of hair-splitting in the piece, but ultimately figured I could get into it more if someone brought it up. Anyway, I wouldn't really discount the importance of watch faces, especially on Pebble since they're key to customizing the look of your device. And I think they'll get more useful with time; Jawbone's app is technically a watch face, for instance, and some faces can display the weather, battery and calendars. I agree that bragging about app count stops being instructive at some point, but in this case I think they show Pebble has done a fine job of establishing itself. Thanks for reading! |