Originally Posted by
cblaisd
Please note that I fully grant that the "confusing" claim is contextual -- for those whose smartphone/tablet experiences are all on Android, I'm sure that it seems very intuitive.
Here's one example: on IOS, if you delete an app on the screen (by holding the home button until all the icons jiggle and then hitting the x on the icon) the app is gone/uninstalled. But I just discovered tonight (after downloading several email clients to find one that had threaded conversations) that when I deleted the icon off the home screen (by dragging to the trashcan) the app isn't actually gone. I was very surprised to find in the App list that all the apps I thought I had deleted were in fact still there. I find that confusing.
Agree, this is one of the first points Apple made in the battle. Your 'screen/s' icons are infact just short cuts. Many like this, in the way you can delete an icon and not the app. Like the IOS apps that offer 'App Folders or Drawers' you can control the 'screen' clutter.
Originally Posted by
cblaisd
In fact, having several screens of icons AND having a global list of icons/programs is not very intuitive. I suppose I should think of those home screens as more like being populated with shortcuts?
Think of it like your desktop at home. You have short cuts on your desktop to apps you use all the time. Then those and other apps you don't use as often are on the start ->Programs menu
Originally Posted by
cblaisd
And I can't move my widgets around on the screen. No matter what, they spring back to where they were.
Sounds like a 'grid' issue. The screen is layed out in a grid and each icon takes up X amount of space. Kind of hard to explain that one, you have to play and learn where the icons will go.
Originally Posted by
cblaisd
And finally (for now
) I do not know why AwardWallet isn't in the Market and when I go there via the Google route, it tells me that it can't be installed to this machine.
Some apps are flagged to not install on certain carriers or OS's
You MIGHT have to enable "unknown Sources" to install the APK from their web site. This setting is under the Applications settings in Settings.
Originally Posted by
cblaisd
Despite all that, I'm still enjoying the tablet a great deal.
