I’m a huge fan of the spirit of these gestures, but I’m not crazy about the excution. I wish Apple had followed the interaction already adopted by other platforms, including BlackBerry Playbook, Nokia N9, and the next version of Microsoft Windows. All of these platforms use edge gestures, a technique that is at once more internally consistent and more deferential to individual apps.

Josh Clark on ‘Edge Gestures’

The app switching gestures in iOS 5 don’t feel right to me at all. I think it’s a harder problem to solve for iOS because it wasn’t designed for this kind of multitasking from the beginning.

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