[Tloewald]

It seems to me that intents/contracts is the biggest low hanging fruit and being able to embed info in your icon (the way calendar does) is the biggest low-hanging fruit.

Removing google dependencies matters to apple not users.

[danielamitay]

I agree whole-heartedly with the dynamic icons.

- Weather apps that display weather directly on the icon (I don't understand why Apple never did it for themselves).

It would be trivial for iOS6 to implement a protocol where the OS could "poll" the app for a new icon only when the icon is visible, and only occasionally for performance.

[mclamb]

This is why Google does not copy many of the iPhone's features https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&sclient=... (link to patent search)