It’s time to fight the power. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge
Every major phone manufacturer is guilty of a serious crime, and I won’t be quiet about it any longer: they stole the power button from us. Apple, Google, Samsung: guilty, guilty, guilty.
Long-pressing the power button used to bring up an option to turn your phone off, but then these companies decided to get cute and make this a shortcut to summon their digital assistant. This is bad and wrong, and I’m politely demanding that these companies return what they took from us.
Look, I get the logic. When phone screens got bigger, physical buttons like Apple’s home button were axed, and existing buttons had to p...
