Why does Apple severely restrict what the user can do to set up their homescreen the way they want it to be?

[Arlen Holder]

Here is a work-in-progress Android homescreen organized into a dozen tasks:
<http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_android_apk022.jpg>

Here are the filesystem folders for the appdata for those dozen tasks:
<http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_android_apk023.jpg>

Each task has a folder hierarchy to store the app data & readme logs:
1. time (e.g., calendars, clocks, timers, tasks, stopwatches, etc.)
2. talk (e.g., phone, mail, voip, contacts, sms, etc.)
3. file (e.g., file editors, file browsers, folder shortcuts, etc.)
4. buy (e.g., barcode scanners, calculators, shopping lists, etc.)
5. map (e.g., roadmaps, topomaps, logers, compasses, starmaps, etc.)
6. dock (e.g., phone, sms, contact, mic, dashcam, & camera)
7. audio (e.g., recorders, call recorders, ringtone generators, etc.)
8. pic (e.g., gallery, camera)
9. vid (e.g., youtube clones, youtube, players, etc.)
10. network (e.g., wifi scanners, cell scanners, servers, vpn, etc.)
11. browse (e.g., tor browsers, firefox browsers, chromium browsers, etc.)
12. sys (e.g., app drawer, settings, backup ops, repositories, etc.}

What is so scary about that powerful functionality that Apple won't let any
users set up their homescreen and file system the way a user may want to?

[Arlen Holder]

On 13 Jul 2018 09:59:50 GMT, Arlen Holder wrote:

> What is so scary about that powerful functionality that Apple won't let any
> users set up their homescreen and file system the way a user may want to?

Last night I continued to organize my newly set up phone, where I would
like to do the same type of functionality on my iOS devices.
<http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_android_maps_01.jpg>

The question is why doesn't Apple allow the user to organize their apps?

[Arlen Holder]

On 14 Jul 2018 16:16:05 GMT, Arlen Holder wrote:

> The question is why doesn't Apple allow the user to organize their apps?

The point is that the user should be free to organize their desktop:
<http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_android_maps_01.jpg>

All of my mobile device apps are free, where, in the case of freeware map
apps, the tiers I organized by in the map folder are:
=================
- First the offline roadmap apps
Mapfactor Navigator, Google Maps, OSMAnd~, CoPilot, Sygic, Navmii USA
- Then what I use for an offline roadmap trip-tracking app
A-GPS Tracker (the maps are Google Maps, hence useless for hiking anyway)
=================
- Then offline USGS topographic location, tracking, & routing apps
US Topo Map (my favorite), Locus Map
- Then offline USGS location & tracking apps
Backcountry Navigator (my favorite), MyTrails, Avenza Maps
- Then offline USGS location apps
Topo Maps
=================
- Then OSM location, tracking & routing apps
Gaia GPS
- Then OSM location & tracking apps
Trackbook
- Then apps that track without an underlying map
OSMTracker (my favorite), GPSLogger, TinyTravel (very different)
=================
At that point there are "other" kinds of maps in the map folder
=================
- Position indicators
Here GPS, My Location
- Compass readings
Solar Compass (my favorite), Just a Damn Compass, Compass
- Map editor suites
Polaris Navigation GPS
- Star Navigation
Sky Map, StarWalk2, Star Chart
=================

Notice without even being root, each app can be renamed as I see fit.
Also notice that active separation folders are easy to create.
When you click on those folders, you're taken to the file system for those
apps.

This is all part of how a well-organize computing device should be.
Yet, Apple severely restricts what the user can do on the desktop.

*Why does Apple severely restrict what the user can do on the desktop?*

What threat is it to Apple to allow users the simple freedom of owning the
organization of their own homescreen?

Why can't I be free to organize my app icons as I want on iOS?