What is Launchpad's purpose?

Yeah, that's immediately apparent, I just wondered if anyone found much value or use for it, or even why it's there. I mean c'mon, if you're going to have a feature that will display every single app you have, and says you can put it in any order you want, but doesn't give you the ability to set it alphabetically or chronologically, or frequency of use, etc. it's worthless, and only means a lot more time wasted, manually putting each app in order!

I sure wish Apple spent all the time they do on coming up with needless & pointless bells & whistles, & focussed more on just ensuring their Operating Systems, Safari, Mail, etc, worked more seamlessly, it would be more to their benefit and ours... smh

Yes, for it does pop up when a disk is inserted, but was unfindable via the Finder, but Spotlight found its hidden place.

And I don't believe my opinion trumps everyone else's, which is exactly why I asked how others find it useful, so that by knowing, I might change my opinion. However, at this point, since I'm not an iPhone user at present, its familiarity of function, doesn't make it of any more use for myself. I still don't know why there's no function to sort the apps in any way, but manually. That seems, to me, really ridiculous. I'm not going to put 100 apps, one by one, in some kind of order... that's hardly befitting so technologically advanced a machine.

As for the DVD player, it won't even play any disks I've tried, telling me the Regions don't match, which also makes little sense, as they were recorded right here, in Region 1. And there's zero explanation for this anywhere, so I'm going to have to call Apple, to try and straighten that out...