I think part of the great thing about having iOS, Android and Windows Phone available to us as consumers is that everyone has different things that are importan

I think part of the great thing about having iOS, Android and Windows Phone available to us as consumers is that everyone has different things that are important to them. Something that seems cluttered and useless to you is a selling point for someone else. I have personal anecdotes for the two examples of Android and iOS clutter you mentioned. Again, different things are important to different users. For me, part of the reason I got a Nexus One a couple of years ago was that I could make my home screen more useful than just app launchers. For pretty much the whole time I've had the phone I have had a home screen that includes a widget to turn on and off my led flashlight, a widget displaying the weather for the next 24 hours and a widget to call my wife directly. In regards to iOS, I was actually just having a conversation with my wife the other day about her being able to easily reject a call on her iPhone. You could certainly chalk my anecdote up to being a power user, but my wife is not the type to be installing and tweaking Linux. :-)