Comment by chromadon
6 hours ago
I remember the days of custom launchers on Android. Truly futuristic single-finger optimised interfaces that are long since dead.
My favourite was a “pie” launcher that would spawn wherever pressed in an anime/minority report futurism style. It was incredibly easy to use.
But, instead everyone settled on the rows or icons launchers and widgets. Very boring.
I feel like iPadOS could have tried to push the envelope a bit but they wanted mass market appeal, and nothing is simpler than pushing a big icon I guess. :shrug:
You could give pre iOS 7 devices to grandmothers and monkeys and they could use it. That was nice.
Nowadays, I don’t know all the gestures and things you can do on an iPad despite watching every Apple Keynote.
There still is a pie launcher, quite active and popular it seems. Not an anime style though. https://github.com/markusfisch/PieLauncher
Now I'm curious of what does this pie launcher looks like. It would be so cool if you could provide a picture or the name of it!