Jef Raskin's son (employee No. 31 at Apple and Macintosh), Aza Raskin has long been used in Mozilla, where he designed the first specification for geolocation APIs, Ubiquity, or Tab Candy. It is not particularly convinced by the home button on the iPhone.
"Though proverbially simple, it gives you too little information" : the home button of the iPhone is used to return to home. If we supported it by mistake, he must often sail again to find the application, or go through a double-click to summon the helm of multitasking, and if the application is not compatible with multitasking wait for loading and reconstruct the browsing history. There is no simple way to return to the home screen application, beginners thinking that just press the home button takes you back to the host application - one click which is simpler than typing repeatedly on an arrow to move up the thread of a navigation application.
"Though proverbially simple, it gives you too little information" : the home button of the iPhone is used to return to home. If we supported it by mistake, he must often sail again to find the application, or go through a double-click to summon the helm of multitasking, and if the application is not compatible with multitasking wait for loading and reconstruct the browsing history. There is no simple way to return to the home screen application, beginners thinking that just press the home button takes you back to the host application - one click which is simpler than typing repeatedly on an arrow to move up the thread of a navigation application.
