Nonsense. LaunchPad does in fact have hierarchy in the form of user-created folders and pagination. Even if it didn't, comparisons to the Start Menu are odious. The main reason the Start Menu sucks is not "too many programs", but that it relies on notoriously unusable submenus[1]. And then it insists on nesting them. And then most of the items in the Start Menu are not actually applications. Even Windows 95 shipped with at least two ways of avoiding the use of the Start Menu as a launcher, and subsequent versions added at least two more. Search works well, but search has its own problems. For instance, you can't search with a mouse.
Windows Vista and 7 have the ability to search the start menu because of it.
Mac OS X likewise has the ability to launch applications from the system wide search. (As does iOS, for that matter.) Why does this somehow stop counting if they add an additional feature?
I loathe default-full-screen programs. I like to have the option available
That's what this is: an option. There is no indication that any application now launches full screen by default, or any reason that couldn't do that now if they chose to.
It also basically torpedoes a lot of Apple dogma from previous years with no true ability to fully maximize program windows.
Not really. Full screen mode still does not replicate "maximize" behavior. Even on Windows the two are distinct. Microsoft Word, for example, has a separate full screen mode which behaves differently than simply maximizing the window.
Nonsense. LaunchPad does in fact have hierarchy in the form of user-created folders and pagination. Even if it didn't, comparisons to the Start Menu are odious. The main reason the Start Menu sucks is not "too many programs", but that it relies on notoriously unusable submenus[1]. And then it insists on nesting them. And then most of the items in the Start Menu are not actually applications. Even Windows 95 shipped with at least two ways of avoiding the use of the Start Menu as a launcher, and subsequent versions added at least two more. Search works well, but search has its own problems. For instance, you can't search with a mouse.
[1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steering_law
Windows Vista and 7 have the ability to search the start menu because of it.
Mac OS X likewise has the ability to launch applications from the system wide search. (As does iOS, for that matter.) Why does this somehow stop counting if they add an additional feature?
I loathe default-full-screen programs. I like to have the option available
That's what this is: an option. There is no indication that any application now launches full screen by default, or any reason that couldn't do that now if they chose to.
It also basically torpedoes a lot of Apple dogma from previous years with no true ability to fully maximize program windows.
Not really. Full screen mode still does not replicate "maximize" behavior. Even on Windows the two are distinct. Microsoft Word, for example, has a separate full screen mode which behaves differently than simply maximizing the window.