ohsweetbasilOct 29

Fever dream phone. Also, no apps.

https://lemmy.world/post/38028727

Show threadprotistOct 29
I had a Windows Phone and I loved it. Fight me.
Show threadunexposedhazardOct 29

Fight me.

No, you already have some strange inner demons you apparently need to fight.

Show threadprotistOct 29
Counterpoint: Windows back then wasn’t as reviled as it is now. I also wonder how many of the people upvoting you ever even put their hands on one
Show threadmagic_lobster_partyOct 29
Counter counterpoint: Windows back then was Windows 8.
Show threadAnarchoSnowPlowOct 29

The problem with windows 8 is that with the initial release they wanted everything to be a mobile OS, even your desktop.

“Metro Design” lol

But it seemed decent for tablets and phones.

Show threadaltkey (he\him)

The idea of unified interface layout itself wasn’t bad, that’s the implementation. It felt like they both didn’t have people testing desktop UI at all and didn’t have any idea how to leverage that idea on a desktop.

Things they could do:

  • Seamless device switching, projecting and control across Win platforms over local wireless;
  • Crossplatform app development, with a wordpress-like UI wrapper;
  • Tiling DE, so you can have a couple of vertical mobile-like apps contained in their constant positions for ease of use.

    • Let it be an ecosystem where every new Windows device can be an opportunity multiplier. Like how KDE Connect makes my phone a media remote or a mouse+kb, and my PC a handler of recent photos I took with my phone today, no cloud involved. With their huge marketshare they could’ve pushed anything they wanted onto hardware producers as a demand and put Apple out of game entirely.

    Instead, we had horizontal scroll in Start menu, fullscreen Calc app, no third party desktop app bothering with Metro interface, everything being like a worse Win7 and the only living reminder of Metro phase ever existing being rectangular squares in w10 Start, now retired for MacOS copycat. GG WP M$. It could’ve been your turning point going into smartphone age, but you had too much money and yesmen to care.

    Oct 29 at 3:44pmWeb