[grabcocque]

Yes, the people of Earth could never grasp the awesome complexity of a new edge gesture.

Of course the home button was such a simple UX though:

* Press place your finger on it to use Touch ID

* Press once to go the home screen

* Press twice when unlocked to bring up task switching

* Press lock button then press twice to initiate Apple Pay

* Press and hold to talk to Siri

* Press at the same time as the lock button and then release to take a screenshot

Yeah, it was such a SIMPLE bit of UX. If you’re a UX expert arguing for the supremacy of a verb with at least six overloaded meanings, imho you’re UX charlatan.

[zimpenfish]

> a single new edge gesture

There's at least three - swipe up for home; swipe up halfway and hold for task switcher; swipe left for previous app. If you've turned on Reachability, there's also swipe down to activate that.

[grabcocque]

The edge gestures for switching apps aren’t new, they’ve been on the iPad for some time. The swipe up to app switch/go home is the only new gesture. Anyway my point stands: the home button was a massively overloaded bit of UI and no serious UX person would defend that.

[zimpenfish]

> The edge gestures for switching apps aren’t new

These aren't edge gestures - they're on the Home Indicator. And "3D Touch Edge + swipe" was already on the iPhones.

> the home button was a massively overloaded bit of UI

Cannot disagree.