Tim Cook said they will break new grounds. Tim Cook delivers. Innovation at its best. Many might say Apple is more than a decade behind, but as MacRumors users let us know, Apple is often late, but when they finally offers a feature, they make it better than everyone else...
Really, truly expected this to end with a LOL emoji 😀 or a
bright red
/s
It reminded of a tech version of
The Onion!
Maybe, by 2040, Apple will permit users the customization we had back in the Palm Pilot days with Z Launcher. You could set up small, named tabs on, say, the left-hand side of the screen -- e.g., Games, News, Notes, Utilities -- and easily drag and drop app icons onto the tabs.
One tap and you'd enter your games world. Another tap, and you'd be in your News apps. It was fast, convenient, and user-customizable by side of screen, color, icons for the tabs, etc. Amazingly convenient.
It also avoided the ridiculous spectacle -- and frustration -- of trying to drag iPhone app icons onto a particular Home Screen and being subjected to the Apple Shuffle! (Where the apps rearrange themselves and spill over onto another screen.)
There was never any issue, either, as happens with the iPhone, in which you inadvertently create a new folder (because an icon momentarily was within the boundaries of another) or when you, contrary to all expectations, ended up suddenly over on the previous Home Screen. None of the jiggly-wiggly, distracting nonsense, either.
Oh, sure, you'll say -- you can create a bunch of folders that function sort of like the tabs did. However, that's a lame equivalence. If you're inside an iPhone folder, you cannot see the other folders. In the Z Launcher approach, you always had ready access to the other tabs. Strikingly simple, yet powerful. Very Apple-like... well, the Apple of the old days when HIG meant something!
(HIG = Human Interface Guidelines)
The emphasis on transparency, consistency, and usability has been long lost or buried...