Hmm so typing is easier than swiping? I dunno. Why not expose for iPhone??? Hot corners FTW.
Or hot gestures; draw a quick circle and it takes you to a user defined set of apps, square another set...etc...
My biggest issue is that it just isn't easy or quick to arrange the icons on the touch screen. Why doesn't Apple give you a simple interface inside iTunes that lets you arrange the icons as you would like and sync them back to the device. New downloads go in a special place and you an then arrange them when you want to.
I would also like to see a way to have categories and even more than 16 apps per page. I could have a page that is Utilities and another page with games. I could flick up or down to access more apps inside the window. In other words, don't restrict the screen to just a single static page. Give us scrolling like we have always enjoyed on the Mac. Since Apps are already categorized on the store. Why not have them automatically drop into the appropriate category. Then when I download a game, I know to go to the games page. This seem like standard stuff. Will we need to wait for v4.0 to get better organization? Say it isn't so. With over 150 apps on the ipod, it is hard to remember where things are.
I would also like an option to define behaviors of pages. Maybe like smart pages where one is recently used apps. Another is most used apps.
Maybe make the bottom 4 apps act this way by choice in prefs. Or how about making the bottom 4 apps scrollable to access more apps. Sorta a mini version of the 4x4 apps in the main screen. Maybe give you 8 apps to grab from quickly no matter what screen you are on.
I can go on and on but my last suggestion seems like something that would have come to any UI designer at Apple when they implemented the double click option for the home button to pull up music. How about making the double click bring up a launcher from any app. Would basically make the device seem like it has background apps.
Lets say you are in a game. You decide You need to check your calendar. You pause the game. Double click the home button to pull up the launcher. The launcher would contain your most popular apps of your choosing. Lets say 9 to choose from in the middle of the screen. Could also have the standard music options come up as well. You can then jump directly to calendar.
Once in calendar you do your business and double click home again. Maybe now there is a "flip back" button so you can quickly pop back into that game which may not be on the list of 9 popular apps you have in the launcher. You are now back in your game without ever having to hit the main springboard screen or flip through all your countless apps.
The flip back button would work much like a TV remote does to jump back to the last channel you were on when you change the channel.
I would be thrilled by the idea of not having to jump out of an app before flipping across to a different one. We do it with music all the time. Why not with a bunch of other apps?
Lets see some improvements Apple. We don't want to wait years for this kind of UI improvement that seems like common sense when coming from a UI as slick as Mac OS X.
