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Re:Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps by freehunter on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:41PM (#5500221)
taude thinks similarly to how I do. Live Tiles feel like a part of the ecosystem and there's not a widget available for every app I wish there was on Android. Then you have to factor in that there's just not that much room on the Android home screen, and widgets come in a variety of odd shapes and sizes.

Live Tiles are consistent, with only three square (rectangular) sizes to pick from. The fluid scrolling through them (rather than page by page) makes it feel more spacious. I have an entire home page dedicated to Facebook, for example, because the Facebook widget that shows me updates (and only one update at a time) takes up fully half the screen. The weather widget I use takes an entire line of icons, and the calendar widget takes up two columns by three rows. It's like playing a jigsaw puzzle trying to arrange a useful "live" home screen. Live Tiles are also visually consistent, which Android widgets are not (my Android home screen looks hideous).

A Live Tile is a app shortcut that also acts as a widget by displaying useful information. An Android widget is a widget that can also link to the application. That tiny difference is a huge gap in comparison.

Re:Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps by B-Con on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:57PM (#5500317)
In short: It's not an inherent or technical difference so much as an ecosystem difference. Win8 developers think about Live Tiles differently than Android developers do about widgets. (Right?)
Re:Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps by fyi80 on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:57PM (#5500314)
The non-discrete page-flipping (so you can scroll one column at a time, instead of a whole screen) is nice. I don't know any Android launcher that can do that.
Re:Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps by crwll on Saturday April 06, 2013 @06:42AM (#5503221)
This one can:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pierrox.li...

With Lightning Launcher, you can also skip the grid altogether and freely align, scale and even rotate your widgets and zoom in and out in the launcher, if you want. It's very customizable.

Re:Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps by seabee on Friday April 05, 2013 @05:46PM (#5501263)
The new home screen on the HTC One?