MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be

Re:MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be by chromadon on Saturday April 25, 2026 @04:23AM (#47899712)

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:

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Re:MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be by trvz on Saturday April 25, 2026 @05:00AM (#47899880)

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.

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Re:MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be by onli on Saturday April 25, 2026 @04:58AM (#47899870)

There still is a pie launcher, quite active and popular it seems. Not an anime style though. https://github.com/markusfisch/PieLauncher

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Re:MacBook Neo and How the iPad Should Be by Ertuit on Saturday April 25, 2026 @04:58AM (#47899871)

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!

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