I AM LOOSING FAITH IN APPLE UR GETTING WORSE EVERYDAY, UR NOT IMPROVING THE IPHONE UI AT ALL.. UNLIKE ALL UR COMPETITION…. STEP UP APPLE AND BE A MAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL…

Rene Ritchie

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In short, I’m hoping for a better solution, although in general the ability to bring other small apps in and out quickly would be a good thing. I wouldn’t mind an interface, maybe activated with a special gesture, where I choose which widget I want to bring in, so I could quickly bring in just my calculator, or clipboard manager, or whatever I choose, without the clutter and inefficiency of updating everything else.

Rene has said many times what you’ve just said. I don’t think they need to justify their posts anymore than they already have.

It’s not going to happen. Quit asking.

FLASH!!!!

5 finger multitouch is a little overboard. What about those people with a finger chopped off? How do you think they feel?

How do those people with no fingers feel right now? How do those people with no hands or no arms feel right now? Maybe if Apple makes their devices entirely voice controlled, then you can ask how people who can’t speak will feel.

Multi-finger gestures will be the future for a good long while.

As for non-Apple users saying the “fly in-and-out widgets with darkened background” idea will never happen, this has already long-existed on OS X… but with a key command instead. So, it’s nothing new to Apple. And does anyone really believe the iPad won’t have calculator and weather? C’mon…

@Dev: OK, everybody copies something – but Apple does bring highly polished and original complete products/services to market better and more often than anyone else. We’re not deluded for saying so.

But now when I visualize that…it makes it seem close to Android and the way they operate.

Well…I don’t know. I mean…they can do that, and everyone will say Apple invented it. So if they can get away with it, why not.

The lock screen is not really a good implementation of it. It’s home screen or nothing. They could have info on the lock screen (weather, stocks, etc. Make it customizable), but not widgets.

“Apple is regularly voted the most innovating company in the world, but its inventiveness takes a particular form. Rather than developing entirely new product categories, it excels at taking existing, half-baked ideas and showing the rest of the world how to do them properly.”

With the notable exception of the Newton, this is how Apple operates, by breaking existing ground better, rather than staking entirely new ground. While they sometimes come up with a Pippin or AppleTV, they also hit market defining homeruns with the Mac, the iPod, and the iPhone. The iPad may turn out to be another seminal product, defining the tablet market in a way the windows tablets of the 90s and early 2000s utterly failed.

There is nothing wrong with this approach, but this near-fetish-level insistence that Apple is somehow better than this, that they create brand new classes of products emerging fully formed like Aphrodite from the sea foam, is blinkered, blinded fanboy speak at its worst. They copy, they improve while they copy, and they do a damn good job of it. The people in Cupertino would admit no less.