I’ve decided I hate the iOS Newsstand. I don’t buy magazines on my phone, and don’t plan on it. Pulse provides the news feeds I need, and I don’t even check that every day. It’s more of a waiting in line thing.

What I do get, as part of a paid subscription, is the New York Times. But now the app is hidden in Newsstand. I never see it, and thus never check it. Yes, it’s just one more click to launch. That shouldn’t be much of a problem. But it is.

Let me repeat: When I don’t see the app on my home screen, I don’t think to launch it. It’s just that simple. Are you listening, New York Times? My usership has plummeted due to Newsstand. I’ve opened the app once since updating to iOS 5.

Newsstand is just another wack app foisted on iOS users, like Stocks, and Game Center (though I’m sure this is a minority opinion for the latter).

In other peeves, I love my iPhone more than the next guy. But even I wouldn’t check Facebook and Twitter half a dozen times during a movie. That’s exactly what the wife and I witnessed last week at a viewing of Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Um, WTF?

There is no reason to check Facebook during a film. Period. Full. Stop. You paid $8 for the right to sit in that seat, and you’re bored by whatever’s on screen. I get that. Get up and leave. But don’t subject everyone else in the theater, many of whom actually want to watch it, to the light from your smartphone. It’s beyond discourteous. It’s dickish.

The movie, by the way, was fantastic. Elizabeth Olsen may have best actress in the bag. See it. But keep your damn smartphone in your pocket with the ringer off.

/rant