I love meeting new and interesting geeks. One such person is my friend Bill Willkins. Bill Started out a “farm boy” in from Durham North Carolina but eventually found his way to England and now Switzerland. Bill’s now 75 but still works as a European Outdoor Industry Consultant. I can only hope I’m as much a geek at 75 as Bill is.
So Bill, show us your home screen.
What are some of your favorite apps?
I still find Apple’s native contacts app as the most useful. No other contacts app comes close. I have Fantastical on every device and MacBook. Excellent.
While I’m using 1Password, I’m also testing out other password managers. Apple Notes & Reminders are run as a team on the home screen of my iPhone & iPad.
Which app is your guilty pleasure?
My iPhone is my app resource. I have at least 200 apps archived on my iPhone. I review them monthly. I have to start deleting some. I emphasize I don’t use them all but review them monthly.
What app makes you most productive?
OmniFocus without doubt.
What app do you know you’re underutilizing?
Most likely, OmniFocus.
What is the app you are still missing?
I am not missing anything. The problem is the reverse. Too many.
How many times a day do you use your iPhone/iPad?
It is the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night.
My iPhone is my most used Apple device. I can see the day coming when I move to a large iPad. This is mainly due to the ease of updates.
What is your favorite feature of the iPhone/iPad?
I can use them everywhere. I also like the ease of updates and the relative economy and/or price of apps. (The other side is I buy too many.)
If you were in charge at Apple, what would you add or change?
I would not take the job even if it were offered.
There was a famous saying. You can please some of the people part of the people some of the time and a few of the people all of the time but you cannot please all of the people all of the time.
What’s your wallpaper and why?
My wall paper is a plain black background. I do not want any distractions.
Thanks Bill!