On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:24 PM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Latimerius <l4t1m3r...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, well, it's probably not by Google, or one that Google had any
>>> say in. None of the built-in apps on my devices have an exit button,
>>> not even games (that in general do include it AFAICT).
>>
>>
>> Google Maps Navigation has "Exit Navigation" as an option in the menu (at
>> least on my device running 2.3.4).
>
>
> Oh, and in reference to the original point of this thread, if you press
> back, it asks you "Exit Navigation? This will end all route guidance". If
> this check wasn't there, and you exited the app accidentally, you would have
> to re-enter the app and re-input your route guidance parameters and restart
> the process, which would be a pain in the ass if you're in the middle of
> driving. So seems like there are some valid use cases for such validation.

Interesting, thanks for pointing this out.  I'm guessing something
about Navigation must be somehow expensive or slow so they had to put
that check in.  Or otherwise, was the crusade against exit buttons I
remember seeing all over the net back in 2009/2010 misguided?

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