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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by paxys on Friday June 13, 2025 @06:54PM (#44273008)
For sure, so many of its features were far ahead of the competition. Sleek minimilist UX, live tiles, Qi wireless charging, kids mode, Cortana, search within settings (so simple yet no one did it at the time). Continuum let you plug your phone into a monitor and use it like a full Windows desktop (many years before Samsung Dex and other similar efforts on Android). "Universal apps" that could run on desktop/mobile/web. Sucks that Microsoft fumbled it so bad.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by tonyhart7 on Friday June 13, 2025 @11:38PM (#44274022)
its really sucks to develop windows phone at the time

I guess MS really learn it lesson and go ham on opensource ecosystem

if its today MS that launch windows phone, I think they can take off

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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by Den_VR on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:15AM (#44274569)
All I really wanted from the Windows phone was the ability to pull up powershell and run some simple scripts :(
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by FirmwareBurner on Saturday June 14, 2025 @07:41AM (#44275756)
I don't think that's why it failed
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by attendant3446 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @05:20AM (#44275240)
Looking at the state of Windows 11, I doubt that.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by freeone3000 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @07:57AM (#44275827)
Still no. It failed due to lack of apps. Apple and Android have twenty years of app ecosystem behind them at this point. If launched today, it will still fail due to lack of apps.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by fakedang on Saturday June 14, 2025 @01:37PM (#44277643)
They could if they made the same looks with an underlying Android OS, just like Huawei and all the Chinese brands which have been barred from Google Android.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by freeone3000 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @04:39PM (#44284808)
Then there’s no point? Just make a launcher? (They did make a launcher. Nobody used it either.)
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by tonyhart7 on Saturday June 14, 2025 @05:01PM (#44278807)
reading comprehension
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by wkat4242 on Sunday June 15, 2025 @01:53AM (#44280812)
Most of those apps have been completely rebuilt in the last couple of years. Everyone does that regularly. They could easily add a new platform at that point.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by tguvot on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:35AM (#44274650)
Continuum seems to be released in 2015. Motorola Atrix that had desktop mode was released in 2011
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by Grazester on Saturday June 14, 2025 @05:10AM (#44275208)
Let's not also tell op that I was using Qi Wireless charging on my Google Nexus 4 in 2012.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by paxys on Saturday June 14, 2025 @09:09AM (#44276239)
Nokia Lumia phones launched a year before that.
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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by Grazester on Saturday June 14, 2025 @10:25AM (#44276639)
What I was getting at is that the Windows phone wasn't revolutionary to include this as op was implying, certainly wasn't saying that the Nexus 4 was the first.
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