Re:Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps
by Zigurd on Friday February 06, 2015 @11:51AM
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I'm not sure the article is accurate regarding apps, or it might be some Canonical talking point that obscured the issue, but "QML" implies you can write Qt apps that are "native" to the Ubuntu phone environment.
Re:Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps
by slgeorge on Friday February 06, 2015 @05:49PM
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You can write native or HTML5 apps for the phone. Scopes themselves give you different ways of looking at content. The first couple of pages of Ubuntu Developer give the best information (http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/)
Re:Ubuntu smartphone offers alternative to apps
by drapper on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:41PM
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Not sure about the other things you mentioned, but "all of your social networks in one single messaging hub" functionality was removed in 8.1 update (which, apart from that one change, made Windows Phone really so much better), but, MS says, it's gonna be back in Win10.
When it first came out, Windows Phone had one of the most interesting UIs out there. It combined all of your social networks into one single messaging hub, had a novel concept in tiles and the sliding panes (or whatever they were called). Unfortunately, every app maker wanted to more or less port what they were already doing on Android/iOS to Windows Phone, so few ever used the functionality MS provided. As of Windows Phone 10, it all seems to be gone.