Ouch!
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I believe I heard it on an episode of the AC podcast that there wasn't anything back there. I'd be psyched if there was.
This. I actually went back to the drawing board on the app I'm writing to make sure it's Holo compliant and has the menu bar where it should be.
My first clue that this was not going to be a serious piece was with the misspelling of "Hideous".
I think it was rubbish, but not because of the spelling. Plenty of smart people are poor spellers.
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You're entitled to look at it your way, of course, but I have quite a few apps that provide strong value to me that haven't been updated, and may never be updated. These are apps that have been around since well before JB, and were provided free of charge. I suspect the original authors have little incentive to go back and rework them. That doesn't change there value to me, and I have better things to do with my time than scour the Play store looking for apps that provide the same function with a different interface. IMHO, HTC should either go whole hog and adopt the standard JB interface, or keep the menu button. It looks to me like the only benefit of HTC's approach is that they got to stick a big HTC logo where the home key should be.
As for the review, it's one man's opinion. He's entitled to it, as everyone else is to their's.
Best way to test it, even on an old phone..
Go to your home screen and start scrolling to the left and as you are scrolling slide down to where the buttons on the screen are. If you slide your fingers on the buttons and the home screen still moves then the whole area is touch sensitive. I would suggest some One owners to try this if they were to slide around on the HTC logo and the screen responded by moving then it could be programed
enik
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Sigh. For the reason already discussed in this thread: Because there are a treat many apps, probably 10s of thousands, that haven't adopted the current interface guidelines and simply work a lot better with a menu button. But I did say OR. HTC's approach is neither here nor there. Not very compatible with many existing apps, and not compatible with Android standards. There are already two serviceable approaches. Why they created yet another non-standard approach is beyond my ken.
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It is not htcs problem if developers do not update their apps to be compliant with android standards. Htcs implementation is technically compatible with them but through double use of a key. A phone with a menu button will never be compatible with them.
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That is a bit of hyperbole.
I think in some instances backward may be better than sideways, and could be better than forward.
I really don't think it will bother me in either case, and I think too much is made of the dreaded black bar, but blanket statements like "never" are seldom correct. I can see the point of meyerweb.
Who's problem is it then?
It is HTC's problem if it costs them sales. They are in dire need of increasing sales.
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