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I haven't seen that part yet, but to me the iOS app list was a killer feature. I always hated Android's desktop, it feels redundant when there's already an app

I haven't seen that part yet, but to me the iOS app list was a killer feature. I always hated Android's desktop, it feels redundant when there's already an app menu, and I can't stand the fact that newly installed apps decide to show up on the desktop. Never used widgets either, they have never made my daily workflow easier at all. YMMV

efdee 6y ago
How can you simultaneously state that you prefer an app list (where all apps are listed and thus added automatically) and complain about how apps are automatically added to the Android home screen (which I presume is what you're referring to as desktop)? And the thing you never used never made your daily workflow easier? That sounds... obvious? Try using it for a while and then decide if they're worth it.
- derefr 6y ago
  > How can you simultaneously state that you prefer an app list (where all apps are listed and thus added automatically) and complain about how apps are automatically added to the Android home screen (which I presume is what you're referring to as desktop)? Presumably because, if your primary "default" view was already the app list, then it'd be redundant for the home screen to have apps on it. If the "home screen" was secondary, it'd become more of a "widget screen" (like the iOS "widget page", but with the ability to add shortcuts to documents/bookmarks as well.) Just like a PC desktop (which is secondary in function to the OS apps menu/launcher) is essentially a "widget page" + shortcuts to documents, bookmarks, and common locations.
  - ric2b 6y ago
    So don't use the app list? I'm confused about the problem.
innocenat 6y ago
The nice thing about Android is that you can totally customise the desktop. There are multiple luncher that make it act more like iOS.
sudosysgen 6y ago
You know on Android you can just... download another launcher, right? You can change all of that in about 5 minutes flat.
jdofaz 6y ago
>I can't stand the fact that newly installed apps decide to show up on the desktop That is an option that you can disable
dahfizz 6y ago
If you're the kind of person who is really picky about how your desktop behaves, but you also can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes configuring it, Android is not for you.

efdee 6y ago

How can you simultaneously state that you prefer an app list (where all apps are listed and thus added automatically) and complain about how apps are automatically added to the Android home screen (which I presume is what you're referring to as desktop)? And the thing you never used never made your daily workflow easier? That sounds... obvious? Try using it for a while and then decide if they're worth it.

derefr 6y ago
> How can you simultaneously state that you prefer an app list (where all apps are listed and thus added automatically) and complain about how apps are automatically added to the Android home screen (which I presume is what you're referring to as desktop)? Presumably because, if your primary "default" view was already the app list, then it'd be redundant for the home screen to have apps on it. If the "home screen" was secondary, it'd become more of a "widget screen" (like the iOS "widget page", but with the ability to add shortcuts to documents/bookmarks as well.) Just like a PC desktop (which is secondary in function to the OS apps menu/launcher) is essentially a "widget page" + shortcuts to documents, bookmarks, and common locations.
- ric2b 6y ago
  So don't use the app list? I'm confused about the problem.

innocenat 6y ago

The nice thing about Android is that you can totally customise the desktop. There are multiple luncher that make it act more like iOS.

sudosysgen 6y ago

You know on Android you can just... download another launcher, right? You can change all of that in about 5 minutes flat.

jdofaz 6y ago

>I can't stand the fact that newly installed apps decide to show up on the desktop That is an option that you can disable

dahfizz 6y ago

If you're the kind of person who is really picky about how your desktop behaves, but you also can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes configuring it, Android is not for you.