This is an interesting thought from Joe Caiati and Joe Arico about Apple bringing Launchpad from OS X to iOS. Caiati and Arico aren’t talking about the look<\/em> of Launchpad \u2014 the grid of big icons is obviously taken from the iOS Home screen \u2014 rather, he’s talking about the way Launchpad works as a place where all the apps you do or don’t use are hidden away out of sight but yet easily accessible.<\/p>\n

In short, if Launchpad made if full circle back onto iOS, would it be akin to the App Drawer in Android? Serving as a way to help clean up the plethora of Home screens which are getting more and more full of folders and apps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an interesting thought from Joe Caiati and Joe Arico about Apple bringing Launchpad from OS X to iOS. Caiati and Arico aren’t talking about the look of Launchpad \u2014 the grid of big icons is obviously taken from the iOS Home screen \u2014 rather, he’s talking about the way Launchpad works as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26,35],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20262,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions\/20262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}