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If and when iOS's new notification system is overhauled?
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It seems like MS may actually meld the two types together pretty well. Shoot I kinda wish Apple would make a single click show all running apps ala expose and a double click would send me straight home. That alone would be a huge improvement.
I don't understand why so many people hate on iOS multitasking
In most cases, it's because they don't understand what it does or how it works. Witness most of the complaints being about how it's not "real" multitasking (it is) and other similar non-specific claims.
Now, the UI? Garbage. Apple's desire to stay away from a task manager got the best of them here and they muddled it up with the recent apps list. Those are two different things.
At a minimum, the stock UI needs an "advanced" view that says, this app is running, this app is suspended, this app is using location services, this app has a background task going, etc.
I think it is cause people want WebOS multitasking. I would be happy if Apple were to make the UI of the task switcher not suck.
Mad Mac Maniac
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never gonna happen. try switching them and maybe. single click to home (same as now) double click to expose (same as now but expose instead of tray) THAT makes sense. Why would apple confuse everyone....
never gonna happen. try switching them and maybe. single click to home (same as now) double click to expose (same as now but expose instead of tray) THAT makes sense. Why would apple confuse everyone....
Personally the other way makes more sense for my usage pattern. They could add the homes screen as a tile on the expose screen for selecting. Especially since there isn't really any important information on the home screen (if you presume they fix the notification/badge stuff at the same time). Shoot in that expose view they could put some of that information on the top and bottom.
Agree that this would do the trick for the iPhone. I think the iPad needs a bit more refinement.
Mad Mac Maniac
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Maybe it works for your patterns, but it still makes for more logical sense (in my mind) to single click for the standard view, and double click to get a more specialized view of activity. Plus regardless of which makes more logical sense, apple isn't going to change 4 years of single press to home screen and double press for special action, and the previous year of thought for double press for a "multitasking" view of sorts.
To be honest, Apple could. They have tried before (rotation lock/ mute switch). In the end I understand if they don't I just think the home screen paradigm needs to be back burnered. It makes the device feel more like a single task device, even when it isn't. It should be treated like the application launcher that it has become/is.
As I've stated in previous threads. I feel the "multi-tasking" (it isn't multi-tasking, it's fast app switching with an option to quit multi-tasking apps) double click will remain. But it will be added on.
What will probably happen is some form of "Mission Control" in much the same way that it is being added to Lion. Mission Control will consist of task switching , notifications, and maybe widgets of some sort. In fact, Mission Control may be the new default view where the task launching default view we have now may become a Launcher of sorts.
We'll see, It makes a lot of sense for the iPad, but scaling it might be weird on the iPhone.
You know what I think might be a good idea for notifications? Well you know how when you double tap the home button and pull up the multitasking bar it looks like this
Look at all that wasted space above the multitasking bar ... it can be used as a notification page.
... Excellent point.