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Can you 'Folder' your Newsstand.app?
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This is the weirdest thing I can imagine.
If Apple is going to create un-folderable apps (which is weird, but whatever) how on earth did the App Store and the Phone not make the list?
If Apple is going to create un-folderable apps (which is weird, but whatever) how on earth did the App Store and the Phone not make the list?
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I moved it off of my main home screen. I did want to dump it in the utilities folder as I wanted it away.
I moved it off of my main home screen. I did want to dump it in the utilities folder as I wanted it away.
NewsStand is a special kind of folder than can only contain NewsStand apps. As it's a folder it cannot be put in any other folder. As the NewsStand APIs are new in iOS 5.0 there are no NewsStand apps on the store so right not it's 100% useless unless you are developing your own NewsStand app.
Ahhh.
I didn't understand that it wasn't an app. This makes a lot more sense.
Of course, we're back to the very weird "iBooks is an app, newstand is a folder" thing...but like I said: Whatever.
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Thanks for the explanation robbieduncan. Just like Small White Car, I thought it was a standard app.
Thanks for the explanation robbieduncan. Just like Small White Car, I thought it was a standard app.
I think that's because each book uses essentially the same layout engine. The idea is that the publishers use the NewsStand frameworks to create their own custom apps that appear in NewsStand but can have their own, custom, cool layouts and features to differentiate them. The NewsStand frameworks provide the background downloading, updating coverpages etc.
Thanks for your explanation
By the way, downloaded your DLR App the other day because I'm staying at the Novotel in Docklands so it should come in handy been getting the DLR to connect with the tube 
I don't get this either.
I downloaded iBooks because I knew that I was going to want to read Books and PDFs, but I know I have no use for Newsstand since I have never cared for Magazines. Its a shame that it wasn't and optional download from the App Store, and what sucks more it that I can't get rid or it or stick it in a folder.
Now I have another useless app that I can't get rid of like the Contacts app.
Really hope Newsstand will be an optional download like the iBookstore. I see no point having it on my iPhone. Especially if i can't put it under my folder "Least Used apps".
Wasn't iBooks bundled with iOS 3 Betas but became an optional install at release?
Maybe Apple will do the same thing with Newsstand, though I doubt it because, as others have pointed out, it's not an app.
Maybe Apple will do the same thing with Newsstand, though I doubt it because, as others have pointed out, it's not an app.
I thought that iBooks was first only available on iOS 3.2 (iPad only) and became a universal app when the iOS 4.0 was released on June 21st. But even for the iPad it was always an optional install from the App Store.
Suggestion
We should be able to remove unwanted apps from our screen (specifically, the Apple apps that the phone comes with when you first get the phone).
Right now we have to jailbreak to be able to do this (I remember something that let you "HIDE" it, not delete it though)
We should be able to remove unwanted apps from our screen (specifically, the Apple apps that the phone comes with when you first get the phone).
Right now we have to jailbreak to be able to do this (I remember something that let you "HIDE" it, not delete it though)
it looks like a folder in the demo and from what ive read it just organizes your magazine a newspaper apps, its not like ibook where you just synced magazine in pdf format
Like the fella above already said, it is a folder, and using it personally it looks and feels it too. You can't put a folder in a folder
I've just moved it off screen.
Plus really, go thru the hassle of jailbreaking to hide 1 icon?! Lol. Madness.