What Would Alex Bosika Do?

MacDaddy’s here. :D

My good friend, Rup Jolly, shared this hilarious comic strip on Facebook but this was too good not to share further!

What a hilarious charge against our gadget addiction.  Who me, addicted? Ask my lady - LOL.  That said, Bezos mentioned that people don’t want devices/gadgets but they want services.  Um, maybe Jeff but the reality is that you’re part of the same game.

LOL … iPhone 3G! The line cheering is Apple’s smart way of capitalizing on the attention-lusting populace living in a media-drenched world.  Not too far off from that institution famous for attracting actors into religion.  Hmm…what tribe do you belong to?

[LOL] Welcome.  Shoot me.  I am just as bad as the news media (CNN!) for using crazy headlines that have NOTHING to do with the article.  Well, this one is somewhat related.  However, it’s not Tim Cook’s fault.  I like Tim Cook.  Even E.T. likes Tim Cook.  He isn’t trying to hospitalize me.  Only the software is.

This is another “What Would Alex Bosika Do?” segment. :-)  

Here are the apps stats between iPhone and iPad:

iPhone

1. Screens: 9 maximum
2. Folders: 140 maximum
3. Apps per Folder: 12 maximum
4. Total Apps on iPhone: 2160 apps

With the introduction of iOS4, Apple introduced FOLDERS.  Folders allows extremely organized people to sort apps to their own drum beat.  That said, a few interesting things happen if you don’t organize yourself early.  

1. If you exceed 9 screens with individual apps, any other apps are only accessible with iOS (Spotlight?) search - which is terribly inaccurate at times
2. Sorting many individualized apps into folders can lead to quiet desperation, intense hospitalization or seizure and strokes (OK, I am kidding. Don’t sue me Apple!)  That said, the sorting process can be quite painful
3. There is no iTunes desktop client sorting feature that I am aware which could help you sort you apps into folders more easily and more quickly than using gestures on the iPhone
4. Surprisingly (I am pretty sure of this), Apple has not implemented some kind of magic sort that scans your entire iPhone device and by default sorts by genre/category, file size or alphabetical order into folders auto-magically

The last bullet may be hard to understand if you’ve never flooded your iPhone with apps like myself.  I currently have about 554 apps (and counting! YES! Call it “product tester hat”) and because they’re not sorted into folders, I can’t see most of them without an iOS search.  The only way to see the rest of the apps is through manual sortation and folder aggregation.  Do you now see how painful this?  It’s awful.  Even worse, the iTunes desktop client simply mimics (like an iPhone emulator) what I already see on my iPhone.  The only real way to get out of this sordid mess is to simply uncheck all apps on the iPhone via the iTunes desktop client, APPLY (!) and restart the process by individually checking apps I want installed on iPhone.  But rather than select all, I would have to select a reasonable amount, sort them to a folder, and then keep adding more so that I can maximum my app/folder organization.  

This sounds like a lot of work for a company that popularized the APP ecosystem and is generally considered logical when it comes to the gracefulness of their technology and software.

Scott Forstall (Apple’s Senior VP, iPhone/iOS Software), I am begging you.
Think about us app-aholics!

Before you know it, they’ll put me on Shutter Island or worse the Hoarders reality television program! Look at me, I’m a mess. :-) At 554 apps and counting, I’m in need of another hit. Help me organize my app life.

What Would Alex Bosika Do?

I would ensure iOS and iTunes had the capability to quickly sort hundreds and hundreds of apps into folders with some auto-naming convention (e.g. Category Name 1…2….3 depending on how many apps are associated to the category) for category sorts or something different for alphabetical sorting etc.

Trust me Apple.  This would make things just a little more helpful to people who test, download, or use a lot of apps.  Of course, the other solution would be to simply not install so many apps.  No, not possible with app-aholics.  Unless you’re suggesting I start an App-Aholics Anonymous.  Are you?

A Google search to find a solution to my problem turned up nothing. :-(

YES, TIM COOK.  I’m a happy camper in discovering this.  Please fix it. Meow.

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