It may be unintuitive as long as you don't know about it, but once you know, it's pretty handy for operating the device one-handed -- at least for the right handers. Also, note the semantic adjacence between closing an application ("turning off the power of this application") and closing the whole operating system.
it should be an option in a control panel somewhere. me personally, i'd prefer to use the AUX button as the main interface, and leave the power button dealing with, simply, all power-related issues, which can include a menu for shutdown and such, but not for killing apps..
i mean, think about it, please, just for a second. you have designed a computing system whereby the systems primary power button is *also* the means by which apps are managed. in two words: not good. not good at all.
(AUX would work though). ; -- Jay Vaughan
