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iOS 8 Screenshot Reveals New Healthbook, Preview and TextEdit Icons
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I have been suggesting this for ages. It is how Android handles a lot of core apps.
Allow us to delete anything we want outside of maybe appstore, phone, messages and... that's it. Anything else should be able to be redownloaded from the appstore, should the need arise. The glory of a system like this is Apple can also update individual apps, rather than pushing an entire iOS revision to get their core apps updated. Requiring one to update their entire OS to patch a bug in a single App is a ridiculously outdated way of doing things.
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Fair enough.
I honestly don't expect this thing to look like your traditional watch with a circular face and the like. I do expect it to have a display, maybe one that is hidden when not on. If there is a display, one can assume they will add a timepiece feature to it. Would be sort of silly not to.
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Wow, Forstall was responsible for all of that, huh?
He clearly has sources inside Apple. He's been right about things that were too unexpected to just be an educated guess.
He detailed the rMBP before its announcement down to the number and location of every port.
He predicted when a 128GB iPad would come out when no one expected one.
He showed an accurate mockup of the iOS 7 home screen before its announcement, back when nobody knew what it looked liked.
He often reveals the SKUs/prices of unannounced products.
I really don't see a need for a separate Preview app when it is triggered automatically by opening emails and such. Textedit seems useless as well when Notes and Pages already exist. But like everything else I'll take this with a large grain of salt and wait in anticipation when more rumours popup as the new hardware/software becomes eminent.
There are some misconceptions about the iOS icon grid in this discussion.
It's a beautifully constructed grid that is built on two ratios; the golden section (1:1.618...) and the square root of two (1:1.4142...). That is, the icon mask, lines and circles in the grid are all related to each other using these ratios. You can see this here. http://www.designbygeometry.com/ios-icon-grid-a-simple-geometrical-analysis/
The interesting thing is that, even the icons that don't appear to correlate well (if at all) with the grid, do correlate perfectly with the ratios used to build the grid. It's these ratios that tie Apples icons together; not the grid itself.
It's a beautifully constructed grid that is built on two ratios; the golden section (1:1.618...) and the square root of two (1:1.4142...). That is, the icon mask, lines and circles in the grid are all related to each other using these ratios. You can see this here. http://www.designbygeometry.com/ios-icon-grid-a-simple-geometrical-analysis/
The interesting thing is that, even the icons that don't appear to correlate well (if at all) with the grid, do correlate perfectly with the ratios used to build the grid. It's these ratios that tie Apples icons together; not the grid itself.