And vendors don't get to tinker with this pick up a new Windows Phone model, and the interface is the same as it ever was. Microsoft's Windows Phone gets this much right: To see all of your apps, flick left across the start screen and you get a simple alphabetical list you can scroll up or down. Some models step up the confusion by listing apps you've installed after those preloaded by Google, the phone vendor and the wireless carrier.
Here, you can easily browse every installed application in an "app drawer," but you may find yourself scrolling through it horizontally or vertically, depending on which company made your phone.
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Google's Android brings its own app aggravations.
The Launchpad you summon with a click of a Dock icon or the right touchpad gesture also doesn't automatically condense itself, leading to a lot of unnecessary horizontal scrolling. (The upcoming iOS 7 doesn't alter these mechanics much.)Īpple's decision to lend this app-management interface to OS X means Mac users can face a similar level of confusion. So you can wind up with multiple home screens that have only one or two orphaned apps left on them it's up to you to pack them back together. That's how it took me months to realize I hadn't uninstalled The Daily, News Corp.'s unsuccessful try at a tablet publication: It was ensconced in Apple's Newsstand application, which looks and behaves much like a folder with fake wood trim.įinally, deleting an app will also cause iOS to tidy up the home screen it formerly occupied - but not any others. The system tries to name folders after their contents - when I created one for the Jawbone and Withings activity-tracking apps, iOS christened it "Health"- but until you open a folder, you can only identify its constituent apps by looking at thumbnail images of their icons, one-ninth normal size.