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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the three-is-too-much dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by quacking duck on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:58PM

    by quacking duck (1395) on Tuesday May 15 2018, @06:58PM (#680145)

    Newer phones (last 3-5 years) support a Medical Info screen that can be pulled up from the lockscreen. Of course, it's up to the owner to actually enter their info and enable it, but if they did then it would definitely come in handy for locating the owner of a lost phone.

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