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It's easier to go to the first page by press the home button again than to swipe to the fifth page all the time. If we press the home button accidentally, it's easier to open the same app if it's on the fifth page although we could double click the home button. The way it is now is good if we have a group of apps on the fifth page that we use for a certain situation.

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If you exit an application accidentally, you can get back using the task switcher, like you say.

The other situation you describe (you have a set of applications on a screen far away from the first home screen, and want to launch many of them at the same time) seems uncommon. It's typically bad to have a UI that makes the common case worse in order to make an uncommon case better.

The unfortunate thing I don't think a lot of regular users even know about the Task Switcher tray, and really they shouldn't have to.

But I don't have data to back up "a lot of regular users", just anecdotal experience with them.

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