How to remove Newsstand from iPhone?

I don't think I said it was "terrible", that's a mis-quote, only that it is annoying 🙂

BTW, there are many more injustices and wrongs in the world to be offended by, other than my petty gripe....but I'll let that lie as that area is well and truly off topic.

I do like Facetime if that helps placate the Apple cosegenti that I seem to have riled...

There's all sorts of crap that cannot be removed from android phones...

did you know:

The number of apps pre-installed on smartphones:

iPhone: 24

Nexus S: 72

Evo 4G: 160

Droid X: 161

Quit complaining about 1 little app...

I'm sorry, but can anybody give me a good, rational reason as to why the user should not be able to hide Newsstand?

Because some are calling those who want to "immature" and inferring negative things about them on a personal level. Yet, when it comes down to it, the ones they attack are in the right. They should be able to actually hide Newsstand (not just push it off to a different screen), so any attack on their request to do so is uncalled for.

As is the request that Apple should shut this thread down. People are annoyed by this issue. And even though they can privately notify Apple about it (and I'm sure many have), they also want to publicly vent a little. And I shouldn't have to defend that - freedom of speech, free market of ideas, et cetera. Besides, if this thread's existence annoys them, perhaps they can take their own advice and "just not look at it". :p

Sure, this isn't an important issue by any means, but that isn't the point. The point is user experience. What is inconsequential to one person might be meaningfully to another.

Anybody who wants to hide Newsstand (in a real way) should be able to do so. They are in the right. So unless someone can come up with good, solid and rational reasons as to why the user should be barred from hiding Newsstand, maybe they should lay off the attacks.

SamDorios wrote:

I'm sorry, but can anybody give me a good, rational reason as to why the user should not be able to hide Newsstand?

That's easy... because Apple chose not to allow it, most likely for functional reasons, i.e. the way the Newsstand app works with subscriptions.

I think Apple is capable of correcting that. They seem to be a competent company.

And if you can hide the App Store via restrictions (a program which does give you notifications for updates), there's no good reason why Apple couldn't program it to be the same for Newsstand (or Stocks or any other app for that matter).

Perhaps they could, but they chose not to, at least for now... http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.

No one device is perfect for anyone, much less perfect for everyone.

Really? Username says it all. You're a troll.

I already did file feedback. But thanks for the link all the same.

And I agree, no company is perfect, and I hope they fix this stupidly innocuous (yet somehow still incredibly annoying) issue.

I was mostly writing cause I thought the personal attacks were uncalled for. Especially given that those people are logically on the wrong side of the issue.

WE can't do anything about it. WE already said it isn't possible. Whining to US does nothing more than annoy us. If people would complain to Apple, and not US, WE wouldn't get annoyed. WE don't work for Apple. WE're merely users, just like you...

(when I said users there, I saw myself looking into a computer and Tron like stuff going on inside. lol.)

Why users obsess over removing a 3/8"x3/8" icon on their screen is really beyond me. I mean, you and I know that it's not that hard to ignore.

We did file feedback to Apple. But we just also want to vent publicly.

If this annoys you, then file feedback with us to help Apple change it. Otherwise, as I said earlier, take your own advice and just don't look at this thread.

Venting/ranting is against the Terms of Use. So feel free. See how long it takes to get your posts deleted.

Really? Wow, how fascist.

Ok. I'll go away. It is a small issue after all, and I've spent too much time arguing it already.

But you all know that I'm right. Insulting us and now forcing me off the thread doesn't change that fact.

Really? Wow, how fascist.

No. Most people here actually have questions or answers to post here and like being productive.

forcing me off the thread doesn't change that fact.

If you have something productive to post, you're more than welcome. But that is not really my decision.

But you all know that I'm right

No. Again, you are letting it bother you. Most people either use it, ignore it, or move it. You have chosen not to do any of those.

SamDorios wrote:

But you all know that I'm right.

No, I don't know that at all.