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by moheeb 3547 days ago
It seems very telling to me that the Standard Windows Desktop is generally considered a wasteland of discarded program and file icons, basically where you throw your digital trash...yet iOS decided that this was the design they wanted for the main start page of their OS.

No wonder there is such a divide among users. I don't think age has anything to do with it though.
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interpol_p 3547 days ago
The huge difference here is that on iOS you don't have random files lying around your home screen. The springboard is for apps, with a dock for the most common ones to persist between screens.

On Windows (and macOS) the desktop is fundamentally different, used differently, and is often obscured by your windowed content.

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izacus 3547 days ago
No, instead you had unremovable "useful" apps like "Apple Watch" instead.

Luckly they managed to at least let users hide that in iOS10, but it's still a cesspool of rarely used apps.

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anonred 3547 days ago
If by cesspool you mean a single folder on a hidden home page containing unused default apps, then yes, I suppose you're correct.
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junker101 3546 days ago
If by "single folder on a hidden home page containing unused default apps" you mean "App draw", then you've described Androids (arguably superior) default UX.

Put another way.. You're manually 'fixing' the iOS UX to operate like the Android "default"?

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