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This looks interesting to me because I have dreamed of a mobile-first operating system where every app is using predefined UI components. Where every action is

This looks interesting to me because I have dreamed of a mobile-first operating system where every app is using predefined UI components. Where every action is just an API call away (both web and non-web API) from a req/res. We could ship tiny apps (instead of multi-MBs), I think apps like twitter, instagram, etc that are mostly just interacting with a "feed" could literally become KBs worth of JSON/YML code... Sure this would kill creativity but also make the web more accessible...sometimes it's a good tradeoff

xixixao 7y ago
This was Windows Phone. It was pretty great. Unfortunately we won't find out what would happen if it was a major OS (primarily: would the heavy constraints work well?).
- tomgp 7y ago
  Yeah, I used a windows phone for 18 months. There were some fantastic ideas in there and when it worked well it felt like the right way to do things BUT: in practice It was a mixed bag, where the back button would take you at any given moment was a mystery (last app? Last state within current app? Something in between?) and other components also had the feeling of being overloaded in terms of possible meanings. I get the impression that they lacked clear guidelines around usage, not an issue when components look different but when everything has the stamp of official OS look and feel divergent behaviour undermines trust in the whole system.