The Back button takes you back until your reach home, just like a web-
browser.

Menu button allows you to save some real-estate on the screen.
Blackberry users are used to it. WinMobile users are used to it.

All your points are valid, but they are a specific choice of UI-design
and i don't think that either choice (iPhone vs Android) is wrong.
They're just different.

On Jan 26, 8:56 pm, Peter Eastman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If I instead press home and open my calendar then as you say, pressing back
> > takes me to the home screen.
>
> As it should.  That is consistent with the interpretation of Back as
> "take me back to where I was before."  Before opening the calendar you
> were on the Home screen, so that is where Back should take you to.
>
> The example I gave was a different situation: you press Home, then
> Back without opening any other application.  In that case, it ought to
> take you back to where you were when you pressed the Home button.
> That is consistent with the idea of "take me back to where I was
> before."  But that isn't what it actually does.  In fact, it doesn't
> do anything at all.
>
> Peter

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