Depends on the user. DHH wrote an interesting piece on it saying that almost everything he did on iOS using the 10 basic apps and that everything else was pretty irrelevant.
For me that's not true. Of the dozen or so apps I use most often about half are standard, about half downloaded/purchased, so for me it would be a big deal but if what you want to do is surf the web, read e-mail and use a basic media player for photos and video then apps probably aren't a selling point and there's a big enough market of people like that out there.
For me that's not true. Of the dozen or so apps I use most often about half are standard, about half downloaded/purchased, so for me it would be a big deal but if what you want to do is surf the web, read e-mail and use a basic media player for photos and video then apps probably aren't a selling point and there's a big enough market of people like that out there.