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0 pointsebiester13y ago0 comments

I Just changed to Android yesterday. The first thing I missed was the polish of the iOS.

I looked up how to switch applications and all I got was "10 best task switcher apps." I don't have time to evaluate three, much less ten task switcher apps! All I've been able to find is if you hold down the main button and then scroll to task manager, you can get to one.

I like customization, but Apple's defaults were better for me, at least. You say Fisher-Price, I say well conceived and 1960's Braun.

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bane13y ago

If you're using a modern Android phone there's a specific task switching button.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/attachments/droid-news/5101...

veeti13y ago

Except not. Only Nexus, Sony and HTC have adopted the new button layout.

cheald13y ago

You should just be able to hold ("long-press") the "home" button to pull up your task list.

(I don't think that "double-click this button on a platform with no concept of double-clicking" counts as well conceived, personally.)

drivebyacct213y ago

Of course it's not, it's this entitled iOS mentality of "I learned it and it makes sense now so it's intuitive and everything else isn't."

vacri13y ago

sorry, missing from my comment (lost in a pre-edit, it seems) was that it looks Fisher-Price to me. I know that plenty of people don't see it that way. Even if nothing else, the big chunky soft buttons seem to jar quite strongly against the thin, sleek, hi-tech look of the hardware to me - while the software and hardware might separately tell their own stories well, to me they don't seem to jive well together.

estebank13y ago

>> I looked up how to switch applications

Newer Android releases have a dedicated onscreen button for this, while older releases have a press and hold on the home button menu with the 6 most recent applications.

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