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Re:Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile by themacguffinman on Monday October 09, 2017 @08:31PM (#15438468)
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 (#15441441)
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.

[0] http://slidescreenhome.com