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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 krishnoid on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:19PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday May 15 2018, @07:19PM (#680161)

    Don't worry, they'll eventually come around full circle [youtube.com].

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