" ... finding the application in a sorted list of icons?"
1. The list can be very long. As far as I can tell, there's no scroll bar indicator or even a alphabet marker.
2. It's sorted by alphabet, not by install time, so it requires you remember the name of the application. If the name is different than in the market, you're really in trouble.
> 1. The list can be very long. As far as I can tell, there's no scroll bar indicator or even a alphabet marker.
That is a completely valid insight. Either solution would definitely make it easier to scroll to the correct area of the list.
> 2. It's sorted by alphabet, not by install time, so it requires you remember the name of the application. If the name is different than in the market, you're really in trouble.
I would imagine that for anything not just-installed, having the list sorted by install time would be a nightmare. I have no idea what the relative order of installation would be for any of my apps. As for the name, I would hope that application authors wouldn't be so daft as to have the package's name be different that the actual launcher's title, although I wouldn't put it past somebody to do that.
1. The list can be very long. As far as I can tell, there's no scroll bar indicator or even a alphabet marker.
2. It's sorted by alphabet, not by install time, so it requires you remember the name of the application. If the name is different than in the market, you're really in trouble.