At the very least, Facebook Home is a great case study in Android’s potential, created by a company that gets design and also happens to be wildly successful in social media. There are plenty of notes to take here, and I hope Apple is taking some of them.

Agreed. 

Don’t get too much excited over a complete and major new UI for iOS 7. Apple has its own definition of “major new release”. Think of iOS 7 as an evolution, not a revolution. And you’ll thank me later. 

So Jony Ive is now responsible for everything that a user see… and touch. So rumors are saying that he now sit on iOS design meetings in order to offer and give advices.

Design is one example of the increased “collaboration across hardware, software and services” that Apple said it was aiming for when Cook pushed senior vice president and mobile software chief Scott Forstall out of the company last year.

So we could expect Apple to take a very global approach with how they design not only their hardware but the software that runs on it. I find it so much surprising for a company where integration is such a big mantra that they didn’t up to now really care to blend the hardware with software in order to perfect this notion of complete integration.