Dstates writes "As a mostly happy new iPad owner, I love having lots of apps, but I have got to ask, where is the radical set of gestures for navigation? Pinch and open mostly mean zoom out and in, but at times you tap to open, periodically double tap. consistently right swipe is back, som times there is a back button, constantly you just have to go to home and navigate back down. ... Reminds me of the early days of GUIs when every form had its own menu set with other top-level menus and variant placement of various functions. Made life chaos for users. We have been there, done that, and gestures are much worse. At least with a menu, you had a printed tag you could read. Gestures are all magic handshakes until you know them. Seems like the tablet locality should not have to learn the value of consistency all over again." What gestures would you like to see made music and more
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