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I believe he meant that he wishes android would have a universal home button.

I don't understand. How is a universal home button different from the home button it has now?

I don't know what the proper name of the button is, but my colleague's android doesn't have consistent behavior across all apps. I really meant it to mean that there are also a lot of things I'd want to change in Android also, but the topic was iPhones.

Re: Forstall Out; Ive Up

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iOS has barely changed in UI since it's inception. That's not a good thing. No one designs the perfect design the fist time, nor the 100th time, nor ever. The goals and targets change and the design evolves. There has been no evolvement. Sure, there's more precise releases than it's competitors, but that doesn't negate the fact that Windows has a more functional-looking (whether or not it is, is an entirely different…

The original MacOS design wasn't 'perfect' but it was very, very good. And Apple messed with it at their peril. They gave themselves a similar bar with iOS 1.0 - they know a lot about interaction design, and how to make a UI feel smooth and intuitive, and they aren't going to scrap all of those good decisions for the sake of looking new. By contrast Microsoft have some interesting design ideas but they abandon them i…

I'm not saying scrap, I'm saying iterate. (Wrote a wee bit about it here: http://zachinglis.com/2012/why-the-apple-reshuffle-could-pro...)
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