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For me, pinching and multitouch are easy and natural, but often I just use a double tap to zoom instead. In this case, the real alternative to the task switche
by mattparcher 17y ago
For me, pinching and multitouch are easy and natural, but often I just use a double tap to zoom instead.
In this case, the real alternative to the task switcher is flicking through multiple pages of apps, which surely is more difficult than a simple row of recently used apps. It's hard to imagine a pinching gesture that would be usable here, without interfering with the current app.
- LukasMathis 17y agoI don't understand how the task switcher makes a difference for one-handed operation. Either you hit home once, swipe, and tap to open an app, or you double-tap home, swipe at the bottom area of the screen, and tap to open an app. It seems to me that not using the task switcher is more one-hand-friendly, since you can swipe wherever you want?
- mattparcher 17y agoI see your point. Switching to an app that isn't in the four most-recently-used apps of the first task switcher screen would likely require a similar effort as using the multiple pages of the home screen. However, if a user is switching between three or four apps for a given period of time, those apps may very well lie on very different pages of the Springboard. The most frequently used apps are not always the apps that matter now. Even when you would need to swipe in the task switcher, surely it is easier to find an app among 4 instead of 16? (Maybe the task switcher really is only useful for a small subset of use cases, in which case your position would seem to be the logical one.)