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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Actually it’s because apps aren’t neutrally buoyant in the OS, they naturally float to the top

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Dear god, someone needs to make a physics based home screen. It would be utter hell. When you move, it all gets tossed around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Particle simulation home screen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's probably a live wallpaper for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean apps icons that are rigid bodies that are simulated

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh oh. Gotcha. Imagine not being able to make an emergency phone call until it settled down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Or making it by doing rageshake

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Auto rotate works on all angles...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Widgets are now 3d boxes and you have to tilt your phone down and flip it until they face you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No wonder it took so long, must've been a nightmare to get every different app neutral, what with their differing weights.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

They had to invent whole new algorithms to he able to give the binaries of all apps the exact same Hamming weight