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The reason given is:
Specifically, Google wanted to eliminate the button that lets you view all your open apps, making it easier to see your apps with a swipe.
But the underlying reason for wanting to do it comes from this quote from Dave Burke, Google's VP of engineering for Android
"Android have those three buttons at the bottom: Home, back and something else," Burke said. "And it's, it's a little too much, a little too complicated. I think of it as like walking into a room with three doors and it's like, 'which door do I go in?'"
My response to Burke would be: Well, Dave, when you walk into the room, and there's three doors, and one of them is labeled "bedroom", one of them is labeled "kitchen", and one of them is labeled "bathroom"; it's pretty easy to decide whether you're tired, hungry, or need to take a leak - so maybe you should look at having standards for labeling things.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @08:08AM (5 children)
I guess they are referring to the little square button on the lower right?
After having an Android for a few days, I know good and well why its there. It is easy as all getout to start processes, however ending them is often not that easy.
Its not long before you have run so low on resources the phone's OS is trying desperately to find a little ram here and there.
One touch of that lower right button and the reason the phone is so tepid becomes obvious. The thing is clogged with all sorts of stuff. And then its obvious what the little broom symbol is for.
I find it so frustrating that a lot of the newer stuff has much less usability to me than the earlier stuff. Its like having my house cleaned for me, but I can't convince the housecleaner that some of my stuff is NOT trash, and going through my personal life and telling other "interested parties" anything it finds. It may have the most beautiful eye-candy presentation imaginable, but it won't do what I want it to do, and does all sorts of crap I don't want it to do, and I have little control over it. Its "Business-Grade" software, and its nowhere near trustworthy enough for use when some individual has to take accountability over what it does.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 15 2018, @08:15AM (1 child)
No kidding. That button opens the context menu in Firefox Android for example. I can't wait to accidentally swipe another screen open instead.
Apparently three buttons is too complicated. How dare the device have a 2 minute learning curve.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday May 16 2018, @12:27AM
Look at Einstein over here with his two minute learning curve.
Seriously though, some people are too stupid for three of anything.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Tuesday May 15 2018, @04:56PM (2 children)
So when you swipe stuff off the list what you're actually doing is - swiping stuff off the list. Not necessarily anything more. The process *might* end. It might not. Looks the same to you.
So while this will undoubtedly upset many users, it's the loss of a cherished illusion of something android NEVER let you really have in the first place, but that doesn't mean it won't be felt.
Android is such a steaming pile to begin with, I'd wish instant death on it but I'm afraid that would only allow iOS to metastasize even further.
A pox on them both, and on the defective by design hardware they animate as well. The entire industry is an anti-human potlach of wasted resources.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:11PM
I thought it was just a history list, with most of the processes in the literal 'background' having saved their state to 'disk' and stopped running.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:37PM
It's not an "end process" control though. It's a "please turn off" button. Behaved apps will behave. If you want superuser type controls then stock Android will be very disappointing.
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