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I've found the long press in Android one of the most instinctive and consistent pieces of the UI language; I love it. I don't know about the menu button, I cert

• metageek 16y ago
  Long press is the right-click of smartphones. Yes. Maemo, for one, makes no bones about it: at the X windows level, a long press turns into an a right click.
• zacharypinter 16y ago
  Yes, going back and forth between the Nexus One and the iPad, I much prefer long-pressing a list item to remove/edit it over trying to find a button that makes the list in edit mode, or figuring out that some item can be swiped to have a remove button show up. Also, I find myself constantly wanting to use Android's back button on the iPad. It's really become quite natural for me on my phone. That said, I completely agree with the grandparent's comment about the menu button.
• spiffworks 16y ago
  Well, at least we can all agree that the menu button must die. The long press' iOS analogue is the left-to-right swipe on a list item, and you can use all apps perfectly well without ever discovering that gesture. The problem with Android's gesture is that it forces you to think about whether you should long press or press the menu button, then perhaps choose 'more', and so on. Contextual knowledge, that's the phrase. With the iPhone, what you see is what you get-for better or worse. In Android, you need to press the menu button to discover the actions you can perform.