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by toast0 3198 days ago
They could have built a nice ui for that, like cough windows phone. Turn wifi off now, but turn it back on in 1/4/8 hours/when I ask for it/when I get to a 'favorite place'. This was great when wifi at work mostly worked, but had bad days (turn it off until I probably left, maybe it'll work tomorrow). It's much less convenient on Android, because there's a good chance I'll forget to turn it on when I get home.
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Humans aren't that good at estimating time related to future actions, so building a UI that asks them to do so isn't a very good UI. Sure power users might appreciate it but it's quite a bit of cognitive load and still error prone. Much better to just leave it a toggle.