Comments on: Home Screen Analysis: Too Many Apps, Too Few Good Ones

By: cc

cc — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:48:19 +0000

More like redundant.

By: cc

cc — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:47:05 +0000

Just get a Ipod Touch and keep the other cell.

By: HCWHunter

HCWHunter — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:05:55 +0000

Yes, I agree with you that many people probably don’t bother to reorganize their apps. I try to organize most apps by type also, but I would still assume that your first 3 pages would be the most important, or most used apps.

With the new iTunes and ability to organize the pages on the computer, I am re-thinking my pages again.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:53:26 +0000

I don’t have any of App Store apps in my home screen.

A good argument, but wrong analysis.

Let’s assume I download something new, and it’s automatically located on the last page on the Springboard. It’s unlikely that I will took the time to drag it all the way to the first page, unless I’m so eager to do that.

By: Erikun

Erikun — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:27:13 +0000

As may has said, the homescreen is where I keep my builtin phone apps and the ones I use most often, not the once I like the most necessarily. I organize my screens on category after that.
Look at those homescreens at first and 20, Mandy brown has the fewest screens with 2, the rest have 3 or more. Sometimes quite a few more at that.

By: George Fulton

George Fulton — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:33:18 +0000

This article is a fun read but is based on the incorrect presupposition that everyone’s favorite applications are on the home screen. Not so.

Many of my most favorite apps are on later screens. I have screens for games, screens for utilities, screens for news, screens photography, etc. And on these many of my favorites exist, but I have time to scroll for these apps later.

My initial home screen contains apps that I might use on the fly and not have time to scroll to another screen for. But this has little to do with being my “favorite” apps.

I also disagree completely that the availability of more apps doesn’t benefit the quality of apps. I have many high quality apps BECAUSE there is such a healthy breeding ground for a great number of apps. Competition breeds greater creativity and functionality, and we have a ton of great apps to be thankful for.

Fun math whose hat is hung on the wrong hook.

By: Sergey Kuleshov

Sergey Kuleshov — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:56:00 +0000

I would only agree with the initial statement, that due to a vast number of apps in the store finding good ones becomes a challenge. As for the rest of the post, I guess it jumps to premature conclusions based on a very small and biased sample that can hardly represent the population.

Furthermore, “First screen” seems a rather questionable measure to start of with. I, for example, keep quite a few very valuable apps on the second screen. Not because I don’t value them but just cause I like having apps organized by categories.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:51:40 +0000

You can check out all of my apps here:

http://www.shareappscreen.com/screen/supermanfos

By: AppleiPhoneFree

AppleiPhoneFree — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:25:10 +0000

Ye there is many worthless or no good apps for the iphone. I still have many though..

By: Blastoff

Blastoff — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:06:49 +0000

I had a feeling there would be a lot of worthless apps on iphone. I ended up just skipping it altogether and went the cheap route with metro pcs’ wannabe iphone. Samsung something.