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I don't have any friends or know any people. This wouldn't help me much.
You could still list people you stalk, or give machines anthropomorphic names, the ever so stereotypical pr0n star name or star trek character name for each server, etc.
You can do that easily on Android, using a file manager, and on a desktop you can do it too. There's nothing difficult about this, it's just not on iOS. It is an interesting point though, I wonder if a people widget for Android would be useful. I seem to remember having a most contacted or similar by HTC a while ago, but there's nothing for stock Android atm. There are of course some on the store, but it just doesn't seem particularly useful. I guess it just doesn't seem easier to me, the task context seems useful.
Edit: Contacts widget = widget for People :)
This is why it's natural to chart out social relationships as entities/nodes for people and relations as modes between the nodes. Navigating to another person involves traversing this graph over a selected relation.
I think this is the reason I go to facebook before I think about posting something on a friend's wall, or open up my email client, or picking up a phone first, before finalizing my internal decision on who to call.
"Even on my iPhone or iPad I can't have an icon that represents a document." You can do that easily on Android, using a file manager, and on a desktop you can do it too. There's nothing difficult about this, it's just not on iOS. It is an interesting point though, I wonder if a people widget for Android would be useful. I seem to remember having a most contacted or similar by HTC a while ago, but there's nothing for…
The only notable exceptions are the privacy-oriented messengers like Snapchat... but I imagine having the messages be silo'd is more of a feature than a bug for a lot of the users.
"Even on my iPhone or iPad I can't have an icon that represents a document." You can do that easily on Android, using a file manager, and on a desktop you can do it too. There's nothing difficult about this, it's just not on iOS. It is an interesting point though, I wonder if a people widget for Android would be useful. I seem to remember having a most contacted or similar by HTC a while ago, but there's nothing for…
Is the contact widget what you are looking for?
"Even on my iPhone or iPad I can't have an icon that represents a document." You can do that easily on Android, using a file manager, and on a desktop you can do it too. There's nothing difficult about this, it's just not on iOS. It is an interesting point though, I wonder if a people widget for Android would be useful. I seem to remember having a most contacted or similar by HTC a while ago, but there's nothing for…
> I wonder if a people widget for Android would be useful Is the contact widget what you are looking for?
I realize that sounds contrived, but I think activity/tool/app centric experiences are more closely tied to "solving a problem" and people centric experiences are more obscure/less obvious in what you can do.
Perhaps the problem is that people think more about what they want to do than who they want to do it with.