A collection of iPhone home screens from your favorite Apple celebrities
The website's concept is pretty simple - get a glimpse of the home screens of popular Apple or online notables such as Joe Hewitt, John Gruber, or Jason Snell. The creator hopes that the website will help you "see something you've never heard of" and discover some apps that are so good that they made it on the phones of top developers, writers, engineers, and bloggers in the Apple world. The reason behind just featuring the home screen is also simple. While many people may have the same applications, the question is "how many love it enough to have it on their home screen, one of their first twenty apps."
In my experience, the website has opened me up to a few new applications and even some new ways to organize them. Leave a comment if you find someone's home screen to be of particular interest to you.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
emil said 3:14PM on 9-23-2009
I'm surprised how few have swapped out the Apps on the dock... iPod.app was the first thing I moved off the dock when it became possible in 1.2 (?)
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iGO said 3:35PM on 9-23-2009
Agree.
As soon as it became possible, because of all the benefit of turning things on and off as needed to improve battery life, I put my 'Settings' icon in the dock.
Scott said 3:43PM on 9-23-2009
It would be funny to see one all themed out w/ 5 dock icons.
Eddie said 4:47PM on 9-23-2009
My dock has the phone, then ipod, then voicememos (you never know when you need to turn on the recorder really quick, like when The Man is coming down on ya), and safari in that order. I double-click the home button for the camera (for, you know, quick and maybe dirty video recording) so that's sortuva fifth icon.
Rick Kettner said 3:09AM on 9-24-2009
I don't understand why anybody would have Phone in the dock (yet they ALL do). Double tap the home button... you get there instantly. Why let it take up a quarter of the space in the dock?
emil said 8:14PM on 9-28-2009
I keep my phone icon in the dock so I can always see if I have missed calls or voicemail.
Mike said 3:24PM on 9-23-2009
I'm actually surprised so many people keep Mail in the dock. I personally have Phone/Messaging/Safari/iPod, which except for Phone (which I keep there since the device IS a phone...) are used far more often than any other application. My main 16 are dominated by mostly the built-in apps (iTunes/Stocks/Voice Memos/YouTube get relegated to second page), plus commonly-used from the App Store (Facebook, Twitter, IM, and RSS). Page 2 apps tend to be equally used as Page 1, with Blizzard Authenticator, TimmyMe, YellowPages.ca, Remote, and Todo (which I'm thinking about promoting to Page 1).
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Jon S said 3:40PM on 9-23-2009
I can't tell if this website is a joke, takes itself seriously, or is prodding Apple to allow more customization of the homescreen.
My first thought was 'wow, look at all the black screens with rows of icons, everyone has the same homescreen'. Boring.
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William Hook said 3:47PM on 9-23-2009
I'm boring. I have pretty much the stock standard default home screen. Then again, the rest of my pages lack any sort of decent organisation so...yeah. Maybe I'll do something some day soon and actually personalise it. :P
Also, the site seems to be down. Or crashed.
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Doolybug said 3:53PM on 9-23-2009
Well I was very excited for the app arranging abilities of iTunes 9, until I actually tried it. Not too happy, but it's a start. I wish they had something like OS X Spaces, where I can assign an app to a specific page, or even assign genres to a page. Otherwise I am constantly rearranging. So I'm sticking to my old system.
I use the default home screen with Wikiamo and Remote replacing Stocks and Voice Memo, and with Phone, Safari, Mail and Settings in the dock. Everything else is arranged alphabetically. I'm using Spotlight a lot more to launch apps.
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CV said 4:10PM on 9-23-2009
I guess Ricky William's home screen will have the Cannabis app, yes?
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Martin said 4:21PM on 9-23-2009
Honestly, at first I thought it was a great idea for a website. I love to look at different home screens when I come across a fellow iPhone owner.
But then I realized two things:
1. Most of these home screens are not largely different than the others (I believe one IS the stock home screen!) and
2. That the site is only available for the Apple "elite" just perpetuates the image of Apple arrogance
The design is nice though.
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solarpos said 4:34PM on 9-23-2009
I don't know what's more pathetic, this article or the fact I replied to it.
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Burke Hamblin said 4:51PM on 9-23-2009
All I want for my iPhone screen(s) is the ability to hide the default apps I don't use. (I'm looking at YOU, Stocks)
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F35 said 5:00PM on 9-23-2009
Who the googoowawa cares what these people have on their iphones? You need better stories than this!
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Nick Smith said 5:46PM on 9-23-2009
My Home Screen is a mix of default and other apps
Calendar, Clock, Nightstand and Snapture
Settings, Contacts, WeatherPro and Photos
Maps, Evernote, OmniFocus and Spotify
Safari, iPod, iTunes and App Store
Phone, Mail, Remote and Messages
I would like to be able to get rid of the defaults and would really like to flick up and down for settings and/or profiles
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gdrage said 6:14PM on 9-23-2009
Is the site down for you guys as well. http://firstand20.com/
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RR said 6:18PM on 9-23-2009
yeah
it is down for me
500 Internal Server Error
Jerry said 7:03PM on 9-23-2009
Same here
gdrage said 6:28PM on 9-23-2009
Thanks RR
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