Categories SUCKS!

[wildonrio]

I'm a dramatic person I guess. But this especially gets me all wiled up since it's been out for over a year and they still host it and talk about it and support it but they don't improve it at all. Plus it makes me angry that they seem to have a monopoly in the Category-type apps and I feel like it could be done so much better by some of the other amazing iPhone developers I've seen. It seems like everyone else is scared or something to try and compete with it. I don't get it.

[Hayesimus]

drama oh noes.jpg..........................

[blewis1984]

I agree it's not exactly pretty. But for me, it does what it's meant to do. I've no performance issues.

[Hondamaker]

Originally Posted by wildonrio

What a piece of trash program. This app has been out for like a year now and I have seen no improvements.

• Icons are all formatted hideously. Some are their original rounded corner boxes, while most are just squares, while others are the rounder corner boxes inside black squares. Just....ugly. Completely inconsistent with the way all Apple products are supposed to look.
• Very buggy! I went through and tried to make a Games folder and it had me go through a list to pick my games. When I went back to the homescreen to see what it had done, about 25% of my games were still on the homescreen. When I went inside my games Games folder, they were in there too. Great.
• After I installed the app, instantly all of my icons were in complete disarray, moved all over the place in an nonsensical fashion. Now I have to reorganize 8 pages of apps, which takes FOREVER. Thanks!
• As I tried to run the app, it kept freezing. I couldn't even hold the home button to force exit or hold the power button to shut it off. I had to do a hard reset holding the power and home buttons for 10 seconds. The restart took like 5 minutes. This happened twice.
• Loading time is too long! Who wants to wait 10 seconds every time you open a folder? And his option to decrease loading times is have Categories run in the background at all times using Backgrounder. So the 10 seconds we save each time in loading times we lose 10 times as much in battery life.
• Scrolling through apps you have put in a folder is just awful. It doesn't "snap" to each set of 16 icons like your homescreens, but is just a constant smooth scroll. Did I mention that it looks absolutely breathtakingly awful?

You know what sucks the most? This is actually a really important app. With nearly 20,000 apps available, all of us are running out of space in our 9 homescreens and we need a categories-like app. How disappointing that our only option is this. Apple needs to make their own, functional, aesthetically pleasing categories app soon or we are all in trouble. We are in trouble because we can't fit anything else, which means Apple by extension is also in trouble because we will seriously slow down our App Store purchasing for lack of homescreen space.

Now I realize I couldn't do much better and that beggers can't be choosers, yada yada. But all that aside, as an iPhone user, the audience this app was designed for, I simply hate this app.

Dude, I completely agree with you. Plus, when I do go and try to choose an icon for your new folder and you try to scroll down through the choices, I almost always accidentally touch an icon, which is then chosen as my new icon. So I then have to delete the new category, recreate one, and try to choose an icon again. I've almost killed people during my frustrating attempts!

[Hondamaker]

Hey, look at Hayes' new avatar--a pic of him and his strictly platonic friend (she's cute!). LOL j/k

[monkeysrock0622]

I agree with everything you just said. It kept freezing on me when I was organizing everything last night and I had to restart 4 times, and after the last time, half of my settings got reset back to how they were originally but the other half wasnt....it was weird. They ones that were reset werent really related either. How do you even add webclips to a folder? They say you can and even have an icon for it but when i go to add them to a folder they dont show up in the list of apps to add.

[Hayesimus]

Originally Posted by Hondamaker

Hey, look at Hayes' new avatar--a pic of him and his strictly platonic friend (she's cute!). LOL j/k

actually that's a girl that works at the bar and that was the first time i'd met her. so we are perfect strangers.

[Hondamaker]

Originally Posted by Hayesimus

actually that's a girl that works at the bar and that was the first time i'd met her. so we are perfect strangers.

Cool. Are you watching the 'enhanced' season finale of Lost right now? They're preparing us for next week.

[bambam26]

I have to agree with y'all. I really want to be able to use this app. I found that if you restart the SB after you create a folder and then after you add apps to it that it will not hang up. I know that it is extra work but it is what I have found to work.

[Hayesimus]

Enhanced!? No I didn't know. I watch it on iTunes. Think it'll be on there?