The thing to remember is that a lot of times the animation is masking the actual load time of an app. The app is often represented as a screenshot until it comp

The thing to remember is that a lot of times the animation is masking the actual load time of an app. The app is often represented as a screenshot until it completely unarchives itself into memory. You reminded me of a feature I've been dying for though, semi-related: the ability to control tap-speed, similar to double-click speed on the desktop. I'd love to be able bring up the text selection menu more quickly. Edit: To your main point about caching taps -- I feel like while in some case that would be straightforward to implement, it could get pretty hairy for most average users.