Re:Rethinking the App Model
by co_pl_te on Thursday October 25, 2012 @04:19PM
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This is why I love that Siri can now open apps.
I agree that visual search of apps on an iPhone is a "pain point" especially when you have a ton of apps and are looking to open one you use less often that's buried in some folder on screen 7. Could Apple do better restructuring this? Sure. But I think they've solved the problem of opening the app you want to use splendidly with Siri.
Like you, I used to use Spotlight for this frequently, but was also slightly annoyed by the effort — however slight — needed to get a solution. With Siri, though, I find it hard to fault visual or text search on iPhone because I don't think there's any way either can compete with just asking Siri to open what you want.
I don't like talking on the phone — to say nothing of talking to it — but it doesn't get any more frictionless to open a buried app than asking Siri to do it for you.
I agree that visual search of apps on an iPhone is a "pain point" especially when you have a ton of apps and are looking to open one you use less often that's buried in some folder on screen 7. Could Apple do better restructuring this? Sure. But I think they've solved the problem of opening the app you want to use splendidly with Siri.
Like you, I used to use Spotlight for this frequently, but was also slightly annoyed by the effort — however slight — needed to get a solution. With Siri, though, I find it hard to fault visual or text search on iPhone because I don't think there's any way either can compete with just asking Siri to open what you want.
I don't like talking on the phone — to say nothing of talking to it — but it doesn't get any more frictionless to open a buried app than asking Siri to do it for you.