I made up the Munich Design Conference, so their app is doubly useless :)
I'm sure there is a large percentage of apps that are completely useless or interchangeable for most users. But, at 2000 there are probably plenty of useful (to some people) apps missing where the appstore has dozens.
Maybe it's just me, but the Skype "upgrades" for Android and Linux seems to have gotten progressively worse. Whereas they both used to run smoothly for years, the Linux version now doesn't recognize my webcam (on hardware it had no problems with before, and with no OS upgrad in between) and the Android version stutters and randomly garbles video...
I'm actively looking for better alternatives now. Barring that I'll have to hunt down older versions of Skype..
Agreed on all points. I haven't allowed Skype to update itself in years. You can download an older version of their desktop app for yourself here. if that helps: http://www.oldversion.com/Skype.html
Öffi also does Dublin, btw (in beta, though).
You said yourself that the lanyrd app is useless (haven't tried it).
I get your point, but I still wonder how many of those apps are really necessary.