Comment by VerifiedReports

Comment by VerifiedReports 2 days ago

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The removal of Launchpad was an inexplicable blunder. The OS now provides no way to organize your applications.

Why would I want my dev tools, audio apps, 3-D-modeling apps, and office apps all jumbled together?

It's as if Apple is trying to catch up to Microsoft in the race to regress.

EagnaIonat a day ago

> The removal of Launchpad was an inexplicable blunder.

It wasn't a blunder. It was absolutely intentional to force users to start using the AI component.

I suspect someone probably pointed out no one would use it because launchpad has a better UX, so they removed it and forced the three finger pinch to launch spotlight.

I'm currently using the following to fix it.

- Bug in preferences that disabling show home also disables 3 finger pinch.

- I'm using AppGrid as my new launchpad.

- Using better touch tool to activate launchpad with 3 finger pinch.

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  • blell a day ago

    What AI component?

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    • EagnaIonat 7 hours ago

      Spotlight is used to train ML models on Apples servers. There is no private information used and they go through a process to remove PII information.

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halapro 2 days ago

They want you to search. I probably have 200 apps on my phone and their automatic categorization is good enough for me. Most common ones I just search anyway.

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  • oneeyedpigeon a day ago

    That's exactly what I did with Launchpad most of the time. But Launchpad gave you the option of both. Are they also going to take away categorisation in Preferences and force you to search for everything there too?

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  • EagnaIonat a day ago

    It works great on phone, on the operating system there are numerous applications that you don't care about.

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