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Originally Posted by afv011
What really puts me off the One is the moron 2-button layout they've chosen
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Yes, that put me off
in theory, too, but when I actually used the One, it didn't bother me.
It's yet another example, however, of HTC's odd way of being responsive to customers. They're too quick to remove options on the basis of surveys.
They also reduced the number of available home screens to something like four because customer responses told them most users didn't need more than that.
Here's the thing: Android isn't simply about what most users do, since Android isn't iOS. Apple's genius has consisted partly in knowing what to leave out. Google's genius, by contrast, manifests as simplicity which is inclusive -- in a deceptively simple presentation of myriad options.
As Samsung knows, the whole point of Android is to focus on what most users do but accommodate as many variables as are practical (which seems a logical solution for an OS descended from a search engine). We can all choose to have fewer screens in the settings if we like; no need to do that for us preemptively.