Along with the replacement of the hardware screen-orientation lock, the new iOS 4.3 beta for iPad adds new multitouch gestures to rapidly switch between apps. Using 4 or 5 fingers, you can right away appropriate up to uncover the multitasking bar, and appropriate left or right to switch between apps.
But it is a third gesticulate that is fueling speculation. If you splash with your entire hand, you lapse to the home screen, no home-button press required. This, along with rumors granted to the Boy Genius Report, has people wondering if the home symbol will be private from iPad 2 and iPhone 5:
[We] are told that Apple, at a few indicate in time, will eliminate the home symbol from the iPad's design. Instead of symbol taps, you will use new multitouch gestures to navigate to the home shade and moreover to launch the app switcher.
Think about that for a second. With the stream iPad (or iPhone), you can palm it to Aunt Flora and she'll work out how to use the thing in a few moments. The singular symbol does one thing* – earnings you to the home screen, providing a notional reset is to user. At the really worst, if Aunt Flora gets stranded you can call opposite the room "Press the button. The usually button."
Compare this to a buttonless design. How will Aunt Flora work out how to obtain back to the home screen? Who would ever regard to try a five-fingered pinch? And how would you even do that one-handed on an iPhone? I'll gamble that even you, tech-savvy reader that you are, has never attempted a five-finger splash on your iPad.
My theory is that the symbol will stay, notwithstanding Apple's without doubt dislike for buttons in general. we can't wait for to try those gestures, though.
*Sure, the home symbol moreover pulls up the multitasking bar, and helps with screenshots, but Aunt Flora will may never use those, either.
Video of New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3 [MacRumors]
Apple will eliminate home symbol on next iPad and iPhone [Boy Genius Report]
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