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		LukasMathis on July 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button If you exit an application accidentally, you can get back using the task switcher, like you say. The other situation you describe (you have a set of applications on a screen far away from the first home screen, and want to launch many of them at the same time) seems uncommon. It's typically bad to have a UI that makes the common case worse in order to make an uncommon case better.

jbrennan on July 14, 2011 [–]

The unfortunate thing I don't think a lot of regular users even know about the Task Switcher tray, and really they shouldn't have to.

But I don't have data to back up "a lot of regular users", just anecdotal experience with them.

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