During the car ride on the way home, I was thinking what If you scrolled apps normally, but scrolling had a circle effect to make it feel more fluid. It turned into a whole UI makeover, and I really want it now. General: Dock: You still have 4x4 apps and the status bar, but your dock is gone (WTF?). Instead the apps are on the bottom part of the screen and two bars take up the 5th(top) row. Your dock? Scroll up on any page. It moves the top bars off the screen and there it is. Scroll back down and there are your bars. The bars: The first one is an iOS take on the android notifications bar, but with the red alert badges on apps. They are color coded and sorted by phone, SMS, apps, calendar, apps, and games (remind me if I forgot any things that need its own category) . This bar is why it's called globeOS.There's a scroll bar, but each "tick" is a different category of apps. Think of it like a layered globe; each layer is a category of apps of your choice, and the dock/bars stay on each level. Dashboard: Wait, dashboard, the thing on mac that puts convenient stuff one click a way. Yup but think pinch out, and you zoom out of your layered globe to a dashboard with your apple utilities (notes, calculator, stocks, weather widgets, and apps of your choice. Multitasking: Not sure yet, but thinking I could make it another layer, but that would not work in app. I would (almost) suggest putting another button on the iPhone for it. Why? Because multitasking (I think) is what pocket devices will become; your whole (digital and social) life at one button. Don't know how popular this will be. Note: This is still iOS at its core, just my take on it. And while I'm at it, there should be a theme store, apple has to still filter them, to keep the awful ones out. And devs should be able to submit different icons for the themes of their choice. Suggestions and Discussion are wanted badly!
What i really want more than anything is a file system. like directories where you can organize and view files with built in viewer or open them in a third party app.(eg using a third party app to view a .avi file) only then will i consider a mobile phone a true portable computer.
Yeah, but since it's an apple product, it will be VERY controlled on what you can look at, but if I could make a folder (the desktop style) of all my notes, all my homemade videos, and one of pictures (with sub-folders of course), and look at it through a explorer/finder app, I would be all for it Any comment relevant to my idea? Please?
that they problem........apple needs to open up there os instead of being an all controlling dictator. think of how much more useful it would be if you could edit, veiw, create....etc hunderends of file types, keep them on your idevice, and print them, send....ect thats brings up another point...they should create a mobile such printer compatible with the iphone. another things would be a web enabled printer.( you email your files to a printer instead of using drivers) the iOS could be so much more. thats why i was a little disappointed the ipad would run iOS instead of a modified OSx
Sadly the flipside is that is why apple is loved. Apple products JUST WORK. You don't have to really do anything to understand it, and by closing it off, it makes it so that computer/device newbs can be more eager to use it. And while windows (imho) is better (because of what you can do), microsoft just gives you a desktop, explorer, internet, and sets you loose. Good luck to the person who doesn't know what he's doing.
I geuss your right....still im sure apple could come up with something. the thing they could to is just support more file formats internally......like .doc plus give us some way to edit them.( imovie is coming to iphone so i think that wouldnt be so hard) then put in a simple way to organize files. while keeping all those system files hidden. but im a tech person...thats why im getting a windows laptop. but im sure apple could make all those things easy.
If Apple where to create and open file system for the iOS, I would be very tempted to ditch the platform. I deal with enough of that crap with my laptop, 2 iMacs, and server setup. The point of iOS is to put all that in the background and let you focus on the tasks you want to do with the device. Anyone who wants to fiddle a file system (or a task manager, or launcher scripts, etc) should simply jailbreak or switch to Android.
like i said above...keep it simple..hide those system files and dont open it up all the way. not like ifile.....
Can we keep this thread back on topic? How much access you have to your files is another discussion (one that I would like to debate as well), but this thread is about a UI change.
needs themes of some sort....people make thems and then submit them and they are put in a section of the app store. anither thing needs would be some form of widgets similar to osx. you hold the home button for some amount of time and you can see your installed widget( also in app store) another things is something like sbsettings. you slide your finger across the top and you can toggle stuff like wifi and have shortcuts to apps.
Yeah -- just saw your comment above. In a way, that's how the MacOS works. The fact is, you do have full access to the guts of the system (as much as you have in Windows), but much of that is kept at a distance by the UI. I just think that once you make these elements available as part of the iOS, developers will be tempted to shift more and more of the responsibilities to users and break the overall seamlessness of the system. Interestingly, since OS 3.X developer have had access to APIs that give users more control over things like game saves and other application related files -- for example, Broken Sword allows you do download saved games to your desktop. Unfortunately, so far most developers have not taken advantage of the system.
oh sorry. dashboard is probably the first thing apple would do. it would be pretty sweet. maybe iOS 5?
I'd be happy if they added themes - I'd spend money in the app store on themes. Other than that, a slightly more open file system would be great and the ability for apps to work together - for instance Amplitube, Multitrack DAW, and a drum/midi sequencer should all be able to communicate with each other allowing for a portable demo studio.
