For me, Newsstand is annoying because it takes extra clicks to get in and out of apps, the latter of which is more frustrating. iOS7 made this frustration worse because now you need to explicitly click the home button twice to exit (once for the app and then again for Newsstand) whereas with <iOS7 you could click the home button once to exit the app and then tap on the lower half of the screen OR click the home button to exit Newsstand. I know this sounds picky, but in practice it has been an annoyance.
That being said it does seem to be working betteron iOS7 and the NYTimes, WSJ and New Yorker apps all have fresh content ready when I open them.
See, this is why every other OS lets users create shortcuts beyond the One Icon To Rule Them All for a given app. In Android there's that drawer full of widgets you can stick on the home screen, in WinPhone many apps let you "pin to the home screen" on various icons within the app, and obviously desktop OSes have supported that feature since time immemorial.
iOS stands alone with its demand that the home screen must be a canonical list of the installed programs and nothing else.
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For me, Newsstand is annoying because it takes extra clicks to get in and out of apps, the latter of which is more frustrating. iOS7 made this frustration worse because now you need to explicitly click the home button twice to exit (once for the app and then again for Newsstand) whereas with <iOS7 you could click the home button once to exit the app and then tap on the lower half of the screen OR click the home button to exit Newsstand. I know this sounds picky, but in practice it has been an annoyance.
That being said it does seem to be working betteron iOS7 and the NYTimes, WSJ and New Yorker apps all have fresh content ready when I open them.
See, this is why every other OS lets users create shortcuts beyond the One Icon To Rule Them All for a given app. In Android there's that drawer full of widgets you can stick on the home screen, in WinPhone many apps let you "pin to the home screen" on various icons within the app, and obviously desktop OSes have supported that feature since time immemorial.
iOS stands alone with its demand that the home screen must be a canonical list of the installed programs and nothing else.
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