On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]>wrote:
> Honeycomb has widgets and live wall papers and 3-4 soft buttons (and a > system bar, but that may be the soft buttons). iPad has just a list > of apps and one "get me out of here" button, so to me, that is a lot > simpler. > Does anyone other than Steve Jobs really think that less buttons = simpler? Granted, an excess of buttons isn't good, but take Android's two extra buttons (setting aside the menu button, which seems to have been deemed a failure): - the back button is wonderful and actually essential to the way Android works - the search button is extremely useful, as soon as you understand the two ways in which it can work (either in-app search or global search when you're on a homescreen) Don't iOS apps have a back button in the upper left corner by convention? Don't they have a search box or button somewhere, too (if applicable)? Why are hardware buttons so much more complicated than software buttons? Moandji -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
