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Re:WinUI – The modern native UI platform of Windows by iforgotpassword on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @11:01AM (#23091721)
The thing is, flat UI worked really well on the phone, which it was designed for.

It's just that some idiot manager came up with the "unified experience" idea and shoved that shit onto desktop Windows without any time for polish.

Ironically I think pretty much anyone's first experience with metro was Windows 8 on PC, which was such a disaster that people wouldn't even give Windows phone a try because it had the same UI that they learned to hate. Not to say this is the reason Windows Phone failed, but probably one of the many factors.

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Re:WinUI – The modern native UI platform of Windows by DHPersonal on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:46PM (#23094789)
Windows Phone had the best UI of the three major phone operating systems, in my opinion. The Metro UI tile system is a great home screen system, and the layered swipe left/right process made a lot of sense.
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