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You’re right. That said, I am still so sad about Windows Phone going away. To my mind, it is still one of the best Smartphone UX that has yet existed, bested on

You’re right. That said, I am still so sad about Windows Phone going away. To my mind, it is still one of the best Smartphone UX that has yet existed, bested only by voice/passive-screen Moto X 2013. The vision for Windows Phone was unified information, screen-time minimalism, and the most brilliant sound/rumble design I have experienced on any device. The Moto X was a close second by finding ways to avoid needing to look at your screen entirely. By contrast, Apple and Samsung have been focused on screen-addiction, not user efficiency/productivity. iOS Screen Time is the weirdest mea culpa, but works because efficient mobile experiences failed to sell.

iforgotpassword 7y ago
Agreed. They perfected the UI with 8.1. It appears Windows 8 was developed for mobile first and then shoehorned onto the desktop version of the OS. On desktop it felt like an ugly, unpolished incomplete mess, two OS running side by side at the same time. Windows 10 brought much more polish to the desktop, the modern apps integrate much better, more and more setting dialogs get ported to uwp. But at the same time the mobile version of 10 felt less optimized than 8.1, almost like a compromise between desktop and mobile. While that helped getting closer to the goal of a unified experience between desktop and mobile, this was ultimately the wrong vision anyways. And ironically now that mobile is dead, what is even the point in continuing to transform Windows 10 away from win32 to uwp? I'm aware they still have the Xbox which also supports uwp apps but here I see even less of a reason to create this cross platform experience.