The trick now for developers is distinguishing their wares from the thousands of applications already available.
And there are many more wireless Internet services and applications already up and running in Europe -- eagerly embraced by people weary of balky wired telephone networks.
And in the wake of the earthquake, the authorities suspended all adoptions pending a review of hundreds of applications already in the system.
At the same time, if Facebook-Instagram wants to raise the feature-set bar, it might lose some of its user base and find itself competing with much better photo-sharing applications already populating Apple or Android app stores.
Otley and Yeadon Liberal Democrat councillor Colin Campbell also condemned the practice of 'land banking' by developers, as illustrated by the number of planning applications already granted but not built.
January is a big month tomorrowow (15 January) is the main deadline for applications through UCAS, whose latest set of stats showed a 5.6% fall in the number of applications already made compared to last year.
Given the popularity of the Java language and the sheer number of applications already written in it, there is no fear of running out of applications to install onto the hand-held device.
What's more, the new BB10 OS makes porting Android apps possible, potentially giving the Canadian company access to a vast number of popular applications already used by millions of customers.
"Microsoft has a pretty good shot with Windows 8," he added, particularly as it will so easily tie into so many existing Microsoft software applications already used inside corporations.
