To add, the "exit" button also has the effect of turning off GPS updates,
so "exiting" also has a feature that implies something else: that you quit
draining the user's battery.


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Latimerius <l4t1m3r...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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