Well,
that's why it might be useful to be able to
customise what should appear on the Home screen, like JBaby says. I happen to be OK with the current setup, but that's just me; other users might prefer other setups. I really liked your library shelf vs. coffee table analogy, Kris, but to take the analogy further: would it make sense for the government to issue an edict as to
which books people are allowed to put on their coffee tables? Nope. Everyone should be allowed to put on their coffee table,
whatever they wish to see there. And, if you put something on your coffee table
by mistake, you should be able to put it away again, returning it to the library shelf.
Also, I remember there were some technical reasons (a
smaller coffee table?)
for the iPhone's Home screen displaying only 4 items instead of 10 items on the iPad. I wish that number on the iPhone could be increased, though, at least slightly. In fact, that
number itself might be customisable, both on the iPad and iPhone: to some people, a coffee table with 10 books might appear cluttered, while others might consider a coffee table with only 4 books barren. Still other users (JBaby?) would perhaps only like to keep a
single book on their coffee table at a time, and there may well be Marvin users who dislike the very
idea of a coffee table -- to them, the option to
skip the use of Home screen might sound appealing (in which case, there should be an alternative way of accessing Marvin settings).