You can’t imagine it. I guess that was the point of patrickj. It is a subjective question. What is clutter and what is not, and when and how it is bad. And speaking of imagining worlds where clutter is bad, just think that in a perfect uncluttered universe, there is no chance for life.

That's exactly what i was saying. When i say delete an app i mean delete it from the iphone, or uncheck it from the apps tab in itunes. 🙂

I don't own a 3GS, so i can't talk of its performances, I just assumed that.

And the clutter thing, i can understan you saying "i don't want to declutter because i feel fine" but i think a cluttered X (where X is anything that can be cluttered, an iphone, a house, etc) is always worse than an uncluttered X. I can't imagine a world where the opposite it's true.

I use a 3GS and I continually run with well over 100 apps and have done for months. I have not experienced any noticeable slowdown because of this. I find no incremental loss of responsiveness if I move from 130 apps to 150 or 160 apps etc.
I also have to disagree with the whole bit about 'clutter is always bad'. Why? Because you and Marco think it is? Fair enough then, it is bad for you guys. That does not make it 'bad' for everyone.

Are you sure of what you are saying? Try this: delete all apps and look at the speed of the iphone. Then, install 100+ apps and measure again the speed. It slows down. Why? Because every app icon takes up free memory and the iphone has to load every single time all the homescreens. Obviously i'm talking about a 3G. But this could be applied even to the 3GS, why should you lower your free ram if you can encrease it?

About the weight of the apps, well, yes if you analyze each app separately they are light, but if you consider them as a group they can take much free space. 100 1MB apps will "steal" you 100MB, and this is bad. If you download them when you need them instead, they can be ready to use in a few seconds and then diseappear again.

I think this can help you understand what I am trying to saying: http://www.marco.org/71448261

Last but not least, you say they are not hurting anyone? Thery do hurt. They make your iphone cluttered and this is always not good.

I hope you get what i mean, and thanks for the comment, it made me think.

You should delete unused apps just because….you should do it? The title of the article is why you should do it, but you didn't actually give any reasons to support it. Apps take up free space AND memory, huh? No, they take up space on the device, but since they aren't allowed to run in the background, they wouldn't take up any RAM. And since you say that most apps weigh in at under 1MB (a stat you pulled out of your ass, no?) it's not like you'd be gaining all that much free space by deleting a dozen or more apps.

If there's a chance you might need to use something in the future, why wouldn't you leave it? It's not hurting anything, and you can always delete it in the future if you need the space.

Nevermind the fact that the idea of anyone with a jailbroken iPhone that has multiple home screens just boggles my mind. With Stacks, CategoriesSB and PogoPlank available, the only reason to have multiple home screens is because you enjoy clutter.