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At Macworld 2007 Steve Jobs pulled the original iPhone from his pocket, held it up high above the stage, and showed off the app launcher-based Home screen… that’s pretty much remained the same ever since.

That’s not entirely true, of course. Apple quickly added the ability to create WebClip icons for websites, and to re-arrange and delete them. With iOS 2 (iPhone OS 2) they added native apps to that mix. They increased the number of Home pages. They added Spotlight. They added wallpaper. With iOS 4 they layered in the multitasking fast app switcher. They layered in folders. The iPad, and the iPad alone, got landscape Home screen support. With iOS 5 they layered in Notification Center and Siri.

Is it time for something more?

Familiarity is a feature

To a casual user — someone who only makes calls, plays music, takes photographs, and runs the occasional app — the iPhone today works almost exactly as it did back in 2007. Just like a casual Mac OS X user can ignore the Terminal, iOS users can happily ignore Spotlight, the fast app switcher, folders, Notification Center, and Siri, and still fully use and enjoy their iPhone. They can wait years between hardware upgrades (and sometimes, because of that, software upgrades) and still pick up the latest iPhone and use it exactly as they used the first iPhone.

That may not matter to gadget geeks who change their platform as often as they change their jackets, but to mainstream users, to those for whom technology has traditionally been intimidating and inaccessible, that familiarity is a huge feature.

It’s why Apple made the iPad work almost identically to the iPhone and said as much — hundreds of millions of people already know how to use it.

It’s why Home screen interface and experience isn’t fashion. If you’re bored by the iOS UI or UX, consider how little computer UI and UX has changed much over the last few decades. For all its other advances, for all it’s design tweaks, OS X still has icons and folders on a desktop, the same as the classic Mac OS had generations ago. For all of Windows 8′s Metro skins and finger-friendliness, it will still ship on beige boxes with full mouse and pointer support at its core.

That being said, mobile is moving at a blisteringly fast pace. While the iPhone and iOS were the startling new in 2007, they’re now one of the oldest mobile experiences in the space. Interface and experience aren’t fashion, but users are fashion conscious, and phones are subject to fashion trends.

Android has a huge marketshare. Windows Phone is getting a lot of attention, not just from AT&T but from designers. BlackBerry 10 may bring a new level of gesture-based interface to the table (if they can solve the discoverability issues).

These Home screen experiences not only look different to iOS and the traditional app launcher, but they function differently as well.

App launchers and information density

iPhone wasn’t the first app launcher style Home screen. Not by a long shot. Long before smartphones, Palm Pilots were based entirely on the icon grid. When smartphones came along, the Treo retained the app launcher. Windows Mobile adopted it as well. Even today, you can find app launcher Home screens on webOS, BlackBerry OS, and Android. Some of them also add other layers, like Cards or widgets, but for the most part app launchers are never far away.

That’s because they’re familiar, as mentioned above. You see an iconic representation of something you want to do, you tap it, and it opens up. Because they’re iconic (or supposed to be), and because human brains are great at pattern recognition, they scale well and can (usually) be picked out even among a large quantities of other icons.

What they lack is information density.

With very few exceptions, all an icon on an app launcher tells you is which app will launch when and if you tap it. They’re static images and there’s typically no information about the current state of the app, or any relevant data beyond the static image.

In the case of Apple’s iOS, Calendar will show you the current date on its icon, and Apple created a badging system to overlay the number of outstanding alerts an app has pending. But that’s it. With Notification Center, with a little extra effort, you can pull down snippets of those alerts, and see widgets for Weather and Stocks. However, the level of immediately available, glanceable data remains low.

Even if we consider the status bar, which shows carrier and Wi-Fi, time and battery, location and Bluetooth, none of it is actionable. It can’t provide additional information or take you to it. (Although it has added persistent color bands for tethering, voice recording, VoIP or telephone calls, etc. and tapping those will take you to the associated app or Setting.)

Widgets and cards and tiles, oh my

There’s no consistent Android interface, but stock Google, Sense, TouchWiz, “Blur”, and other manufacturer implementations typically offer some variety of widgeting system. With them, you can have social statues, search boxes, clocks, news feeds, and a huge amount of glanceable data available right on the Home screen. They typically take up more space, however, might use slightly more battery and bandwidth as they keep up-to-date, and add an element of chaos to the layout. However, the amount of time they can save makes for an excellent tradeoff. (If that type of data is important to you — some users simply don’t find a use for widgets on computers or smartphones.)

webOS takes a different approach, shrinking entire apps down into “Cards” that stay live-ish on the Home screen, and thanks to more recent updates, can be stacked together. Flipping through Cards doesn’t give you an iconic view or a widget-ized extract, but a look at the entire app, in its current state, with its current data. BlackBerry’s Tablet OS essentially aped this approach as well. The only drawback is that sometimes some apps aren’t as identifiable by their actual screen as they are by their icon (long white list views just look like long white list views). So, it might take a moment to find the exact Card you want, but probably not longer than finding and launching an app.

Both Android and webOS have easily accessible app launchers as well. Both also typically provide more information in the status bar, including the ability to tap into icons to activate drop down menus or initiate other functions.

Windows Phone 7 took an even more radical approach. They threw away the Windows Mobile app launcher and replaced it with a tile-based Home screen. Squares or rectangles represent categories of functionality, and can show a small amount of live content — a picture, an avatar, a number, an icon, etc. It’s not always great, however, since at times they take up the space of a widget while not showing much more data than an icon. (They’re not as informationally dense as they could be, at least not yet.) And because they update, they’re not as visually persistent, which means they lose the advantage of pattern recognition.

BlackBerry 10, which will only be released later this year, seems to be taking a hybrid approach. In the little they’ve demonstrated so far, they’ve shown something akin to a set of four cards, one per corner. Sliding panels also allow access to notifications, messages, and more. (Somewhat like Twitter for iPad. There’s likely a lot more too it as well, and we’ll hopefully see it as time goes on.

Siri

Siri is and isn’t a Home screen. It isn’t the traditional implementation of a Home screen — something you can sit in and navigate around. It demands immediate interaction. But Siri can be used to access data and apps without having to move through the traditional Home screen. Rather than unlock, look for an icon, and launch, with Siri hold down a Home button, wait for a double tone, and speak.

Siri can by no means replace the traditional iOS Home Screen, but it can and does sit in parallel to the traditional iOS Home screen, and can replace its use in a few very specific ways. Yet it’s clear Apple put significant work into Siri, not just into the server-side voice and context parsing engine, but the interface as well. Siri got a lot of the widgets that the traditional iOS Home screen hasn’t. Depending on what you ask, all manner of clock and alarm and to-do and information snippets pop up. All incredibly well thought out and incredibly well rendered.

Getting a Reminder into iOS using the traditional Home screen, icons, buttons, and gestures is a chore. Getting a Reminder into iOS with Siri is remarkably fast. (Granted, when Siri works.)

Siri is still in beta, it’s still not fully baked, Apple hasn’t implemented it on the iPod touch or iPad. So, while Siri is no doubt part of the future, how much of the future is still to be determined.

iOS 6 and the Home screen

There’s not a lot of low-hanging fruit left in iOS. Over the years, Apple has slowly but steadily added in most of the features that most of the people thought were missing in the original iOS (iPhone OS) — apps, copy and paste, multitasking, notifications. There’s a lot of ways to improve the existing functionality, but not a lot of functionality that’s still missing. So on what tent poles will Apple hang its iOS 6 keynote this year?

Sure, Apple’s bought 3 map visualization companies (but no map tiles), so a new Maps App could be one. I’d still sincerely love a Files.app repository, now iCloud enabled. Georgia still wants her Theme Store, where users can choose between a small amount of Apple designed iOS skins. But over the years, as iOS has matured, the amount of features truly “missing” has reduced considerably.

That leaves improving existing functionality. And that brings us neatly back to the question asked in this article’s title.

Is it time for Apple to revamp the iOS Home screen?

Do you want them too? Do you need them too? If so, how so? Is it as simple as adding a widget layer to the existing multitasking and notification layers? Is it increasing Siri to the point where the app launcher becomes secondary? Or does it require something completely new, something that makes Windows Phone Metro and webOS and the upcoming BlackBerry 10 look old and outdated?

If Apple does make a substantive change to the Home screen, what does that mean for the hundreds of millions of mainstream users who are used to, perhaps dependent upon, the way things work now?

Apple has always been fearless when it comes to driving the future. They obsolete hardware and software often faster than the market itself. Is it time for Apple to apply that fearlessness to the iOS Home screen?

While Apple never meant iCloud to work like Dropbox or Google Drive, if you don’t mind polishing up your ninja-skills you can get it to do just that!

There’s no shortage of online storage solutions — Dropbox, Box.net, SugarSync, Microsoft SkyDrive, Apple’s soon-to-be end-of-lifed iDisk, and now, Google Drive. Apple’s new iCloud isn’t meant to be online storage at all; it’s designed to abstract away messy concepts like file systems and folders and tuck everything away neatly behind apps.

But that doesn’t work for everybody. Now, like my colleagues here at iMore, I think Dropbox is currently the best cloud storage solution for iPhone and iPad users. However, Dropbox gives you a measly 2GB of free storage and charges a pretty hefty premium for more.

iCloud, on the other hand, gives you 5GB for free and if you are a prior MobileMe user – you should currently have 25GB of storage space available to you. Like Dropbox, you can always buy more space if need be.

iCloud is great for automatically storing your device backups, keeping all your personal information – contacts, etc. and for uploading Word, PowerPoint and Excel files (see our ultimate guide to iCloud for detailed instructions on how to do all of that and more).  Did you know, however, that you can also (with a little tweaking) upload movies, audio files and pictures to store in iCloud for safe keeping?

Sure, you could get an extra 5GB of free storage with Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, or by combining other accounts, but if you’re already an iCloud user, you may not want the extra hassle of maintaining multiple accounts. You might just want to have your iCloud cake and eat it to. So here’s how.

Note: These directions are for Mac OS X users, we’ll do a Windows version soon.

How to use iCloud like Dropbox or Google Drive

First, make sure that iCloud is up and running on your Mac. Launch System Preferences on your Mac. Click on iCloud. Make sure Documents and Data is checked. Close System Preferences.

Make sure Documents and Data is checked in the iCloud settings

Next we have to go to where iCloud’s Documents in the Cloud live.

How to create aliases for Documents in the Cloud folders.

Use the Go to Folder command to find the hidden library folders

Launch the Finder In the Menu click on the Go menu and then down to Go to Folder (or use the keyboard shortcut, CMD + SHIFT + G) Type ~/library/ and click on Go Double click on the folder called Mobile Documents (if it isn’t there – don’t panic, we will show you how to create it below). Find the folders that store your Documents in the Cloud, namely: Com~apple~pages Com~apple-numbers Com~apple~keynote Double click on the com~apple~pages folder. Right click on the Documents folder. Select Create Alias, which will put an alias for that folder on your desktop. Repeat this procedure on all Macs that use your iCloud account.

How to create the Mobile Documents folder

Find the Documents sub folder in the com~apple~pages folder

If you don’t see the Mobile Documents folder, you can actually create it:

Launch Finder. In the Menu click on the Go menu and then down to Go to Folder (or use the keyboard shortcut, CMD + SHIFT + G) Type ~/library/ and click on Go Click on File in the menu and then New Folder. Name the new folder Mobile Documents. Double click the new folder and make a series of new folders called: Com~apple~pages Com~apple-numbers Com~apple~keynote Double click on the com~apple~pages folder. Right click on the Documents folder. Select Create Alias, which will put an alias for that folder on your desktop. Repeat this procedure on all Macs that use your iCloud account.

How to use iCloud alias folders

Now that you have your Documents in the Cloud folders aliased to your desktop, all you have to do is drag and drop files into them. Drag Word and text documents into the Pages folder, Spreadsheets into the Numbers folder, and Presentations into the Keynote folder.

If everything is properly set up and working, dragging a file into the folder on one computer will automatically put it into the folder on the other computers that use your iCloud account, just like Dropbox!

How to use iCloud to store music, movies, photos, and other files

Now, this is great if you are using Office files, but what if you want to use your iCloud to store movies, audio files or pictures?

Fortunately, there is a workaround to upload any file to iCloud – not just documents.

This method works with images, videos, audio files – even full directories and stores them in your iCloud account for later retrieval.

Click on the iWork icon from your iCloud app

login into iCloud.com Click on the iWork icon Click on Upload

You’ll see that you can only upload Word or Pages documents, Excel or Numbers documents, PowerPoint of Keynote documents or text files. That’s where this gets tricky.

Click the gear icon and then upload and you see you are limited in what you can upload to iCloud

Here I'm going to right click on the Dark Knight file and select Compress

Navigate to any video, image or audio file (or even folder) Right click on it and select Compress from the contextual menu Add .txt to the end of the file the extension. Agree to the file extension warning to confirm you want to make the change.

Warning about changing the extension of the file to a .txt extension

Now, go back to iCloud on your computer Click on the Gear button in the upper right hand corner Click on Upload Document Select the file you just compressed and changed the extension for.

Now, when you go to Pages, you will see the file (it will look like a text file) and it should show up on every device you have connected to the iCloud account.

To retrieve the file from another computer, just repeat the process in reverse. login into iCloud.com Click on the iWork icon Download the file Go to your Downloads folder.

And there’s your file. Just rename it back to .zip, uncompress, and voila!

Our movie file – renamed to a .txt file is being uploaded to iCloud for safe storage

Yes, as hacks go it’s really ugly and really inefficient, but if you understand how the iCloud and Mac filesystems works, and ever really need it in a pinch, it’s there for you. (Unless or until Apple changes things — that’s the risk of using any hack.)

More on using iCloud like Dropbox or Google Drive

So, that’s how you can take advantage of your free iCloud storage to store more than just the music and movies you buy from iTunes and your personal information.

Is newfound cloud storage helpful to you? Share you experiences in this forum thread.

How to set up, back up, restore, and update using iCloud How to set up and use iCloud mail, contacts, and calendars How to set up and use iTunes in the Cloud How to set up and use iTunes Match How to set up and use Photo Stream How to set up and use Documents in the Cloud

Back in late 2009, an Apple patent application surfaced showing that the company had explored ad-supported operating systems, with the user receiving free or discounted goods or services in exchange for viewing the advertisements. The patent application, which was filed in 2008 and shows ad integration in Mac OS X, was notable for listing Steve Jobs as the lead inventor.

As Ken Segall reveals in his new book, Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success, the idea did indeed belong to Jobs, although he initially considered implementing it for the 1999 release of Mac OS 9.Rather than charge the normal upgrade price, which in those days was $99, he was thinking of shipping a second version of Mac OS 9 that would be given away for free – but would be supported instead by advertising. The theory was that this would pull in a ton of people who didn’t normally upgrade because of the price, but Apple would still generate income through the advertising. And any time an owner of the free version wanted to get rid of the advertising, he or she could simply pay for the ad-free version. Steve’s team had worked out the preliminary numbers the concept seemed financially sound.Jobs envisioned the ad-supported version of Mac OS 9 displaying a 60-second commercial from a “premium” company at startup, with the ads occasionally being automatically swapped out for new ones over the Internet. He also visualized the use of contextually relevant ads, such as an Epson printer ink ad being displayed when the user’s printer was reporting that it was low on ink.

Segall was not in favor of the idea, but left that meeting under the impression that Apple was going to proceed with it as the TBWA\Chiat\Day team begin thinking about the premium companies it could target for high-quality advertising. But for whatever reason, Jobs and Apple ultimately decided to scrap the idea.

But while the genesis of the idea indeed appears to lie with Jobs, it is still unclear why Apple decided nine years later to file for a patent on the idea, whether it was due to a serious reconsideration of the idea or merely a tying up of loose ends that saw the company attempting to protect one of Jobs’ ideas that had already been discarded.

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Last week, we noted that Apple had begun sending emails to at least some current MobileMe users offering them free copies of Mac OS X Snow Leopard in order to assist them with ultimately upgrading to OS X Lion in advance of MobileMe’s discontinuation at the end of June. Lion is required for full compatibility with iCloud, Apple’s free service that replaces many of MobileMe’s features.

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