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Latest iPhone 3.0 Beta Allows 11 Pages of Apps (180 Apps)
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I doubt i'll ever use 9 pages, or 11.. but it doesn't matter because i use Categories.app from Cydia to clean up the clutter. 
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I agree with a lot of you regarding the ability to group apps by categories. Right now, I have my apps in alphbetical order. Sure I could've organized them according to importance, but memorizing which page an app is on is a pain; so I settled on alphabetical order.
Someone mentioned stacking apps and combining that with categories...that's something I'd like to see added to version 3.
I agree with a lot of you regarding the ability to group apps by categories. Right now, I have my apps in alphbetical order. Sure I could've organized them according to importance, but memorizing which page an app is on is a pain; so I settled on alphabetical order.
Someone mentioned stacking apps and combining that with categories...that's something I'd like to see added to version 3.
-9 pages is more than 3 times what anyone can actually make use of. Otherwise its wasted space.
-Categories are are not coming to the official OS, as they are a quirky preference that is ultimately unnecessary.
-Any competent person can easily organize the applications they use into 2-3 or nice looking pages. Its very easy (and fun) to do. Once you've done that, Spotlight is the answer for app launching. Even if you are a nut ball with 9 pages of crap you don't use, there's no need to scroll...at all. From your main home screen, which is the only screen i use, one click of the home button brings up the keyboard, type the first two characters and your app is waiting for launch. Touch it and off you go.
-Anyone who thinks Spotlight is a pita compared to categories is just being an antagonist for not getting exactly what they want.
-Categories are are not coming to the official OS, as they are a quirky preference that is ultimately unnecessary.
-Any competent person can easily organize the applications they use into 2-3 or nice looking pages. Its very easy (and fun) to do. Once you've done that, Spotlight is the answer for app launching. Even if you are a nut ball with 9 pages of crap you don't use, there's no need to scroll...at all. From your main home screen, which is the only screen i use, one click of the home button brings up the keyboard, type the first two characters and your app is waiting for launch. Touch it and off you go.
-Anyone who thinks Spotlight is a pita compared to categories is just being an antagonist for not getting exactly what they want.
Ok, so let's say the average person uses each app for only a minute. This is an underestimate I believe with such apps as Facebook, games, and others that users can spend a good deal of time on. So you mean to tell me that a good deal of people use every app totaling nearly 3 hours of use ... not to mention, actually needing to use every app?
Can't they use something like CoverFlow
I would think Apple could find a way to define a coverflow view of apps, which would allow for quicker access to the many apps people are installing on their iPhones. I just have 5 pages of apps now, but I find it annoying to flip through them. Either that of have some way of sorting apps to pages based on frequency of use, or alphabetical.
I would think Apple could find a way to define a coverflow view of apps, which would allow for quicker access to the many apps people are installing on their iPhones. I just have 5 pages of apps now, but I find it annoying to flip through them. Either that of have some way of sorting apps to pages based on frequency of use, or alphabetical.
No. Just... no. Seriously, nobody uses 148 apps day to day. To be honest I suspect most people have a 'hot dozen' or so that they use regularly and the others are backfills pulled out from time to time.
In which case the first page access is probably fine and spotlight would find the rest.
However, it's still a bit clunky in comparison to the rest of the UI.
Because when you have 11 pages, there is 12 "balls" at the bottom, it looks better because its even. Apple tends to make everything even.
lol, I don't think it is possible to use 148 app's day to day unless you do things like play one game of solitaire on 30 solitaire apps then repeat with another game then browse sites using site specific apps.
Even then 148 should be plenty. I cannot even think of 148 app's that are worthy of keeping on my iPhone nevermind use day to day.
Oh and I agree with other people that spotlight is a good solution to having to many apps. Yes folders are nice but not *that* much better than pages in springboard.
I arrange my pages into categories just like I would with folders and the clicks/swipes going between pages is not that much lower it also opens a whole can of worms with nested folders etc. If you delete a folder does it delete the apps? How does it warn you? Unlike OS X when you delete an app you loose the data so this is more of an issue. That's just one issue I thought of and I can think of loads more that need thinking about before you "just "implement folders" just because it works on an computer with a mouse and keyboard does not mean it will work on an iPhone which needs to be simple and controllable with one hand and has a completely different set of goals due to the form factor and input system.
As you can see I think apple are waiting till
a) They have a very good solution (better than the 11 pages + spotlight which serves well for now)
b) The number of people with more than 6 pages of apps becomes the norm and a better solution is really needed. Although vocal MacRumors forum users might install every app on release this does not mean the average iPhone user does or even wants to.
Edwin
I don't know about you guys, but I have a "page" on my iPhone that only has shortcuts to web pages I don't use them but once or twice a week, but I still use them a lot for quick jumps to the website. Like IMDB or even MacRumors even though I almost always have that page open in the mobile Safari.
Actually the first "ball" for search, isn't a ball, its a little magnifying glass.
The easiest and most obvious way to fix this IMO is to be able to create 'folder' icons. You then drag apps into these folders. When you click the folder, those apps come up. Home button takes you to the top level first page.
This 11 pages of apps is ridiculous.
This 11 pages of apps is ridiculous.