Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
by khedoros1 on Monday October 09, 2017 @03:34PM
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The iPhone opens to something like the Program Manager (but with little numbers showing which apps have active notifications).
Android opens to something like a Desktop, with some combination of Widget apps and/or app shortcuts. Mine is configured to show a clock, mini calendar, and weather. Incoming e-mails, SMSes, or other messages are visible in the notification bar. I could configure it to show me little previews of messages, but I chose not to.
Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
by themacguffinman on Monday October 09, 2017 @08:31PM
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Android has supported home screen widgets and activity shortcuts since forever. Live tiles are hardly better, they're just a very Metro-y approach to the same feature.
Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
by ascagnel_ on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @09:09AM
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There used to be a homescreen replacement app for Android called SlideScreen [0] (homepage is active, but the app is abandoned) that would try to give you as much information at-a-glance as possible.
Her use of a phone is very practical: contacts, texting, weather information. All of this was available at a glance in a much much better way than either Android or the iPhone have. It was a better business UI.
It was harder to use if you had many apps. But seriously, having a phone open to the equivalent of Windows 3.1's Program Manager (which is what Android and iPhone deliver) is not great!