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I get it, but it's also a little sad to see the end of one of the last visually-distinctive aspects in any modern OS. Nothing has personality anymore.
by _bxg1 7y ago
I get it, but it's also a little sad to see the end of one of the last visually-distinctive aspects in any modern OS. Nothing has personality anymore.
- B1FF_PSUVM 7y agoLive tiles were great on mobile - to this day I look at iOS/Android and feel I'm back in the past century ...
- ptx 7y agoDon't Android's widgets provide the same functionality? And they aren't forced to fit into the space of a tile but can be resized.
- freeone3000 7y agoNot quite; it's more like a cross between a widget and a shortcut. The idea being that instead of having a Weather Widget and also having a shortcut to the weather app from the app drawer, the icon for the weather app would just be the widget. It feels different.
- ptx 7y agoThe details are a matter of taste of course, but Android widgets do kind of provide this as well: the home screen has a mix of shortcuts and widgets (corresponding to pinned apps in your app drawer, I guess?) and clicking the right spot in the widget usally brings up the app, so usually I use the calendar, weather and notes widgets as (or in preference to) shortcuts to open the apps.