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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: 3, Insightful) by urza9814 on Tuesday May 15 2018, @05:52PM (1 child)
This is exactly why I despise friggin' iPhones -- can't figure out how to do anything because THERE'S NO DAMN BUTTONS!
Best thing about Android is that it has the buttons and in most cases they actually work. The most frustrating thing is when you get some garbage app that doesn't behave properly -- generally meaning the 'back' button acts as exit instead of back. With Apple, that is the situation for EVERY. SINGLE. APP. Back button move around, menus move around, settings may be global or local or sometimes both. No consistency at all. One example: My mom was having issues with rotation on her iPhone Kindle app. Turns out, there's phone rotation lock, and there's also app rotation locks. There's settings inside of apps, and there's app-specific settings in the main system settings menu, and there's the system settings themselves. So to fix that issue took nearly an hour of digging around through all the redundant settings, changing things that SHOULD have fixed it but didn't, until I finally found the right one. Would have taken ten minutes on Android, because there's ONE place for that setting, and it WORKS.
Also...every single button on my Android device has at least two, possibly three functions. Lock is also reboot. Volume up/down is also last/next track. Home is also split screen and one hand mode. App switcher is also menu. If I've gotta have the same button operating three different functions, that means there aren't enough buttons. And they think there's TOO MANY? Where the hell are they going to map all these features? Or is this step one to removing them entirely?
(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:40PM
Simple as can be. Just press the button 13 times fast while hopping on your left foot and singing Yankee Doodle (be sure you sign the words too) for the volume control. Note that fast means an interval of 0.521 and 0.522 seconds between presses. Otherwise you get factory reset. If you want Mute, get thje person next to you to kick your ass on the downbeat.