[robert_tweed]

I keep finding myself agreeing with the author whenever an encounter with the back button is mentioned.

One of my favourite things about an old HTC phone I had running a 2.x version of Android was that the back button worked very consistently everywhere. It made using the native apps feel like navigating around websites: just what you'd expect from Google.

On literally every Android device I've tried to use since then it's been a complete horror show. This should have been the best thing about the Android UI and it's ended up being the worst.

I think the thing that might be worse than back button behaviour is the horribly broken app permissions system.

[npsimons]

What's interesting is that other people have commented on the back button; see http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-one-button-mystique/ which I also find highly amusing for its link to the state diagram of what the one button does - simplicity? I think not!