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"Launcher" permanently removed from the app store

Muaddib7 said:
Lol, you still don't get how a widget that makes something more efficient is more efficient? i think you're just arguing for the sake of arguing.
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As suspected, you stated wrong facts.

A widget providing redundant shortcuts that is placed inside a notifications panel makes nothing more efficient, unless you choose to believe that without even thinking of putting the least effort one can imagine in setting up properly a home screen. You may want to read the previous posts, too.
Why have you replied again, may I ask?
 
LostSoul80 said:
As suspected, you stated wrong facts.

A widget providing redundant shortcuts that is placed inside a notifications panel makes nothing more efficient, unless you choose to believe that without even thinking of putting the least effort one can imagine in setting up properly a home screen. You may want to read the previous posts, too.
Why have you replied again, may I ask?
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I have replied because you clearly lack understanding and have failed to realize that it does more than simply launch an app.

Shortcuts are not redundant when they add functionality beyond what hitting the springboard icon provides. It's a pretty simple concept.
 
Donka said:
For me I am using my home screen in a way that suits me - it has the first picture of our new born child. All my apps are available on the second page which is merely a swipe away. I don't have to resort to a widget launcher app because I could already do that - swipe to the second page and tap the icon. This is all personal preference.
Lets just say I am in an app and needed to quickly jump to another app, even if it was on my home page. I would need to hit the home button to exit the current app, hit home button again to get to the home page (if not already on it) and then hit the icon. Using the launcher I would just swipe and hit the relevant icon. Marginally quicker but quicker none the less. That is an increase in efficiency right there. That is even quicker than accessing an already running app through Apple's delivered method of multitasking which would involved a double tap, swipe to find it and then tap.

This app simply allows is to something in a method Apple doesn't deliver and in many cases, more efficiently.
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I don't think that is a big enough advantage to justify clogging the notification center with non notifications.

If you are already on the home page, for example, you would just have to tap the home button vs a swipe down: the latter would also require swiping to the right, or up and down the notifications panel probably.

Muaddib7 said:
I have replied because you clearly lack understanding and have failed to realize that it does more than simply launch an app.
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Your assumptions about what others understand or do not understand are not interesting for anyone, I'm afraid.
Please, do enlighten me on everything that you just said. Every bit. I won't let a single word remain uncovered.

Muaddib7 said:
Shortcuts are not redundant when they add functionality beyond what hitting the springboard icon provides. It's a pretty simple concept.
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The application shortcuts that are being discussed are redundant, because the same functionality is achieved by... tapping the same exact icon on a screen.
Unlock your phone, and tap your application.

You need to quickly fill in a text? Use Apple's integrated abbreviations.

Is this hard to understand for you?
 
LostSoul80 said:
Your assumptions about what others understand or do not understand are not interesting for anyone, I'm afraid.
Please, do enlighten me on everything that you just said. Every bit. I won't let a single word remain uncovered.



The application shortcuts that are being discussed are redundant, because the same functionality is achieved by... tapping the same exact icon on a screen.
Unlock your phone, and tap your application.

You need to quickly fill in a text? Use Apple's integrated abbreviations.

Is this hard to understand for you?
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You seem to not understand that Launcher is able to launch an app "with context" that simply clicking the app icon does not. It's that simple. If you don't get that, I cannot help you further. Feel free to no longer reply until you've understood this and realize that it saves taps on the screen, just as abbreviations do. You can't promote one as beneficial and deny the other when both accomplish the same thing, saving the number of taps it takes to accimplish a task. If you do, then I will know you are not interested in anything but arguing. You are not interested in an enlightened outlook or conversation.
 
LostSoul80 said:
I don't think that is a big enough advantage to justify clogging the notification center with non notifications.

If you are already on the home page, for example, you would just have to tap the home button vs a swipe down: the latter would also require swiping to the right, or up and down the notifications panel probably.
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Right now in my NC I have Calendar and Launcher. I don't use it for anything else so it isn't clogging anything up and it makes my NC more useful to me. Each to their own though.

If you are already on the home page then yes, there is no speed benefit but that will not always be the case. Or, if like my better half, you have an iPhone 4 with a dodgy home button that takes a few presses to register! ;)


Just one more comment on your use of 'redundant' icons. They are only redundant if you don't use them. If a user is using them then they certainly are not redundant and while they may duplicate something already on the system, they are more convenient for the user than the original icon otherwise they wouldn't have created the shortcut in the first place.
It all comes down to the individual and we are all different.
 
Muaddib7 said:
You seem to not understand that Launcher is able to launch an app "with context" that simply clicking the app icon does not. It's that simple. If you don't get that, I cannot help you further. Feel free to no longer reply until you've understood this and realize that it saves taps on the screen, just as abbreviations do. You can't promote one as beneficial and deny the other when both accomplish the same thing, saving the number of taps it takes to accimplish a task. If you do, then I will know you are not interested in anything but arguing. You are not interested in an enlightened outlook or conversation.
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What is slightly (because it's to be expected here) alarming is that you haven't understood my previous posts.
Feel free to read them as many times as you want. They contain information pertinent to your understanding of the discussion, in which you are not contributing in anything.

Especially - I'm that generous -, you can review these:
# 150 (# means "number" ;)) - The second part of the response to the second quote,
# 170 - Notice the response to the second quote.

When you feel you have digested it, and thought about it thoroughly, again, feel free to reply back.
 
I've enjoyed this thread and the assistance many have given but it's all got a bit silly now.

I'll enjoy this app designed for the lazy until it stops working or a future Apple update stops it working.

Take care guys, maybe out paths will cross again.

Beef
 
Donka said:
Right now in my NC I have Calendar and Launcher. I don't use it for anything else so it isn't clogging anything up and it makes my NC more useful to me. Each to their own though.

If you are already on the home page then yes, there is no speed benefit but that will not always be the case. Or, if like my better half, you have an iPhone 4 with a dodgy home button that takes a few presses to register! ;)


Just one more comment on your use of 'redundant' icons. They are only redundant if you don't use them. If a user is using them then they certainly are not redundant and while they may duplicate something already on the system, they are more convenient for the user than the original icon otherwise they wouldn't have created the shortcut in the first place.
It all comes down to the individual and we are all different.
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As said, I have nothing at all against you, or anyone else, using this widget.
You can decide to become accustomed to it, by making an inefficient use of the home screen for what reason you choose - be it for your favourite wallpaper; or for one's OCD alphabetical order for apps; etc.
It is personal preference to do that. I am not arguing that some people could even come to a point of relying heavily on it.
You can't deny however that in the end, aside from the ability to perform certain tasks automatically - as an idea, it wouldn't be bad to ask Siry to "execute the morning routine", and have that done - which I think are still too easy to perform on stock OS, having the duplicate, exact same icons that you can organise easily in a screen is far from a universally needed feature. And the context of the notifications makes it a complete alien there.
A routine, as in a set of commands, is a more interesting concept: have it load multiple apps, compose and send a certain message, etc. all together.
 
I love that this thread is getting so much activity because one individual has decided to argue ad nauseam about how other people use their phones. Something that has absolutely no impact to this individual.
 
I know it sounds a bit blinkered but I can't see myself having any other phone than an iPhone.

All my tech at home is Apple, it just works.

Just wish the bigwigs would get their heads out of their arses and listen to the people who have helped them get to where they are today.
 
protobiont said:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/29/ap...ch-other-apps-from-ios-8-notification-center/

Not sure if this has been posted. A couple point:
Apparently quite a few people were interested in this app, 300,00 downloads before it was pulled.

They give some possible alternate reasons why it was pulled, however if true you would think the developer could have changed them and resubmitted, so, they don't really seem to hold water.
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Interesting article. Maybe Apple had good reason to pull the app then. Of course the developer is going to blame Apple.
 
Anyone know how to create custom paths the apps which aren't covered in the list of apps included by the developer?
 
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