Latest iPhone 3.0 Beta Allows 11 Pages of Apps (180 Apps)

Flynntoo said:
,bout time
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Yes, this helps!

I'm still amazed by the number of people who take the time to post "who would ever need this many apps". Hell yeah, I want way more than this.

I hope they get some hierarchy organization thing in there eventually. It's really hard to organize all the apps.
 
Yes

I have so many friends whos ipod is filled with apps and they complain that there is not enough room for apps. Hmm does this new update mean speed improvements.
 
lftrghtparadigm said:
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.
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If spotlight is your answer to launching apps, why even bother with app icons? Just have a home screen and spotlight. Have you ever tried organizing apps on 3+ pages? Moving an app across several pages is just painful. Then of course, since you can't have any empty spaces, if you move an app to the front page it will bump icons for every subsequent page behind it, making organizing them an absolute nightmare.



edddeduck said:
Even then 148 should be plenty.
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Well, as Jan of 2009, there have been 800 million app downloads and 14,720,100 iPhones sold. That comes to an average of 54 app downloads per iPhone. Including the 14 default apps, that is a grand total of 68 applications. At 16 apps per page, that is an average of 4 and a quarter pages per user.

So, for all of you using only 2 or 3 pages, there is someone using 5 or 6 pages.
 
I don't think they had any idea how big third-party apps would become originally, they really need to think through some way of grouping apps.

Some way that switch from the current screen mode to a a groups mode.

Each group could have up to 6 pages and selecting a group a would put you on the first page of the group. As many groups as you want (or 11)

OR may be this,

11 pages each is the home page of a group, and a sweep up moves you into the group.

groups could be things like communication, business, travel, games, etc.

of course they need to upgrade the puny ram in the iphone, at least double it if not quadruple it :)
 
liptonlover said:
I'm happy that I can put more on, I have my 9 pages maxed out all the time and have to constantly remove apps just to try out new ones that I may want, but adding more pages isn't the answer. It's a pain sliding through all the pages to the last one already, adding more pages just makes it worse. This is disappointing.
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I have a novel and brilliant idea. Why don't you *shock* DELETE some of those apps that you admitted are 'useless' and that you don't use? What a concept. Its not like you cant download them again in a few seconds on the rare chance that you may actually want to use them someday.

Anyone who has their iPhone maxed up would also have it maxed up with 20 or 30 pages. You're the type of people that just want to max it out for the hell of it, because you can, so it doesnt matter how many apps it can actually hold. 148 apps on a phone is already a ridiculously large number. I guarantee you dont use 90% of the apps on your phone.
 
Scooterman1 said:
I'm going to ask an even more stupid question. Who on earth was that showing the Guitars? I've played for years..... and listening to him, he must be stoned. I sure know he can't work for Nasa.... I haven't seen anything so funny in a long time. Thanks for the link.
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That is Nigel from Spinal Tap. The clip is from the movie "This is Spinal Tap". imdb link
 
Eso said:
If spotlight is your answer to launching apps, why even bother with app icons? Just have a home screen and spotlight. Have you ever tried organizing apps on 3+ pages? Moving an app across several pages is just painful. Then of course, since you can't have any empty spaces, if you move an app to the front page it will bump icons for every subsequent page behind it, making organizing them an absolute nightmare.





Well, as Jan of 2009, there have been 800 million app downloads and 14,720,100 iPhones sold. That comes to an average of 54 app downloads per iPhone. Including the 14 default apps, that is a grand total of 68 applications. At 16 apps per page, that is an average of 4 and a quarter pages per user.

So, for all of you using only 2 or 3 pages, there is someone using 5 or 6 pages.
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Hey there chief, you're forgetting one little detail in that nice formula of yours. You're assuming that... nobody has ever deleted a single app on their iPhone, and has lept every app they have ever downloaded. Alrighty then.

I'd have frikkin 50 pages of apps if I did that. The majority of apps I download last for a day or 2 before I delete them. I'd think this is the case with most people.

So yeah, your calculations are off.
 
Eso said:
If spotlight is your answer to launching apps, why even bother with app icons? Just have a home screen and spotlight. Have you ever tried organizing apps on 3+ pages? Moving an app across several pages is just painful. Then of course, since you can't have any empty spaces, if you move an app to the front page it will bump icons for every subsequent page behind it, making organizing them an absolute nightmare.





Well, as Jan of 2009, there have been 800 million app downloads and
14,720,100 iPhones sold. That comes to an average of 54 app downloads per iPhone. Including the 14 default apps, that is a grand total of 68 applications. At 16 apps per page, that is an average of 4 and a quarter pages per user.

So, for all of you using only 2 or 3 pages, there is someone using 5 or 6 pages.
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You do know Apple has sold a couple of iPod touches which also run apps.
 
Eso said:
If spotlight is your answer to launching apps, why even bother with app icons? Just have a home screen and spotlight. Have you ever tried organizing apps on 3+ pages? Moving an app across several pages is just painful. Then of course, since you can't have any empty spaces, if you move an app to the front page it will bump icons for every subsequent page behind it, making organizing them an absolute nightmare.





Well, as Jan of 2009, there have been 800 million app downloads and 14,720,100 iPhones sold. That comes to an average of 54 app downloads per iPhone. Including the 14 default apps, that is a grand total of 68 applications. At 16 apps per page, that is an average of 4 and a quarter pages per user.

So, for all of you using only 2 or 3 pages, there is someone using 5 or 6 pages.
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Almost good logic but its quite fallacious, I've downloaded personally over 200apps easily over the course of the 3G's lifespan but I've pretty much deleted most of them (I just wanted to try them out). So eh, bogus math.
 
Eso said:
Well, as Jan of 2009, there have been 800 million app downloads and 14,720,100 iPhones sold. That comes to an average of 54 app downloads per iPhone. Including the 14 default apps, that is a grand total of 68 applications. At 16 apps per page, that is an average of 4 and a quarter pages per user.

So, for all of you using only 2 or 3 pages, there is someone using 5 or 6 pages.
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Good point. There are some flaws to your argument however. I don't know how many apps I have downloaded and how many of those I have then deleted from the phone and my iTunes library. I'm sure I'm not the only one. So a downloaded app does not mean that app stays forever on your phone (or touch). I have ~120 apps in the iTunes library and have 37 (including 18 Apple ones) on my phone.

Honestly, the home screen has space for 16 apps and the spring board another 4. That's 20 apps you can access with an easy click or two clicks. Who has more than 20 apps that are used weekly to the point where scrolling between more than 2 pages is an everyday occurrence? That's not a bad interface, that's bad organization. Folders aren't the solution to that because 4 pages of apps will become 4 pages of folders.

But the App Store knows what you've downloaded and if you ever need an app in an emergency and you've already purchased it, you can re-download it to your phone at no cost. That's what I do when I need to check an eBay auction and don't want to use Safari or want to use Photogene. Just re-download from the App Store.
 
How many apps I guess is a personal choice. Apple needs to do something about the springboard (folders, speech seem good ideas). Due to the limited integration between apps and limitation within apps themselves, consolidation is not yet possible.
 
ipedro said:
I think I've come up with a pretty good solution:

springboard.jpg


Each of the 4 lines would move independently of each other so you could assign each line to a category.

You could then flick a category line and stop it on the app you want. Better than multiple pages or even folders I think.
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OMG, THIS IS IT, THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE!!! :apple: /SIZE]
 
I was hoping for a better way to organize apps than just 2 more screens full of icons. Keep hope alive!

And what's with that annoying green lizard that keeps crawling across the page here - ack! Make it stop, please.
 
mavis said:
So if I want to launch an app, I'm supposed to go to the Spotlight screen, start typing the name of the app, and then select it from the list? Sounds like a PITA. How about a collapsible stacks icon which allows you to drill down through your apps. One tap: the stack opens. Second tap: select the category (Games, Utilities, Productivity, etc). Third tap: launch the app. Faster, more intuitive, and easier.
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So let me get this straight, tap for stack = tap for spotlight, second tap select catagory = type first and or second letter, third tap launch app = tap on app in spotlight and launch? How is this faster? Don't you have to search through Games, Utilities, Productivity? So if you have say 15 games or so????

I don't know to each his own, but that doesn't sound faster.

What I would like is the ability to have both, folders and spotlight! Keep my screens nice and clean.
 
FYI to developers: I got bad errors & almost bricked my phone when upgrading to Beta 2 via Restore within XCODE (the latest version of Xcode).

If you get errors too, try restoring in iTunes by pointing to the downloaded IPSW file. Activation is natural after the restore, so don't be stupid & try this if your iPhone isn't listed in the Developer's Program Portal. It won't work.
 
I need this most

I need this most as my pages were full sometime back in september 2008 and can anybody tell that if I register as a developer after spending 99$, will I get beta 3.0 iPhone OS which I can then just instal lon my iPhone..thanks


Sachin
 
sach2n said:
I need this most as my pages were full sometime back in september 2008 and can anybody tell that if I register as a developer after spending 99$, will I get beta 3.0 iPhone OS which I can then just instal lon my iPhone..thanks


Sachin
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Yes. You will get the beta. But after using the latest build since yesterday, I can tell you, its still nowhere near being ready to be used every day.

In your case, isn't it cheaper to say, uncheck a few of those apps in iTunes? I mean I don't know what you're doing, but I seriously seriously doubt you're using all 140some apps every single day. And unless you sync with iTunes once a year, I don't really see the problem with keeping everything you don't use on a daily basis, on the computer.
 
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