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Just for fun, I opened up my app drawer to see what apps I regularly use (almost every day),
"Alarms + Clocks", Amazon Appstore, Calendar, Facebook, Gmail, Market, Pandora, Twitter, and Web.
I left off games. I also left off stuff that Android considers apps, but I consider part of the OS: call logs, camera, etc.
There are a few others that I don't use a lot, but "need them". BoA mobile, Opentable, Navigation...
The rest are mainly random shit I've downloaded and haven't bothered to delete yet. I don't see the need to have 500 apps on my phone. If I want to look at ESPN, I'll open espn.com. I don't need "an app for that." Although I"ll grant that the situation is -a bit- different with a tablet.
As for quality and developer preference, I think you're right, or at least you were. The facebook app was complete shit when I first got my phone, but I think it's reached parity with iOS now. I can't speak to other examples.
Android support has come a long ways. The biggest remaining gaps are with multimedia for some reason. Netflix obviously. Hulu too. A couple others. I bet those will be out within months though. I'd say within six months, you'll have parity for what most users want. Right now, I already have everything I want.
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