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Feels similar to having to say goodbye to Windows Phone. I now use iOS and despite Apple having added some features from Windows Phone in recent versions, I sti

by bhauer 5y ago

Feels similar to having to say goodbye to Windows Phone. I now use iOS and despite Apple having added some features from Windows Phone in recent versions, I still feel it's years behind where we were.

cseleborg 5y ago
Yes, Windows Phone was very cool, the home screen with the tiles was amazingly information-dense. I miss it too (still got the yellow Nokia device in a drawer somewhere...)
- Pxtl 5y ago
  Best thing about windows phone was how you could bundle together all the social media feeds for a single contact and see them all in one place or see all the social media feeds for all your contacts in a giant list. Using contacts as a shell for various contact information feeds was a brilliant idea and other plarforms should steal it. Let me take Messages and Email off my home screen and give unified feeds in my Contacts.
  - DoctorDabadedoo 5y ago
    Yup, loved the home screen, it had the right amount of available information and customization, coming from android back them I was very impressed by how slick the OS felt and how it didn't degrade over time even on entry devices. It was a pity it didn't get enough adoption/users/apps.
- rgoulter 5y ago
  Three features which I wish were copied from WP: - In the alphabetical lists, you could tap on each letter which would bring up a navigation grid of the letters. This made it really easy to jump to e.g. 't' with two coarse taps (compared to e.g. the fine tap which iOS requires to jump to a letter in the list). - A physical camera button. - The icon toolbars at the bottom of apps could be expanded; this let you see what each button would do without having to click on it or decipher the icon.
mehrdada 5y ago
"Years behind" only if you cherry-pick a few signature features. The primary feature that has to work, that did not on Windows Phone, was having a decent web browser. Trivializing the importance of what iOS did right is understandable in a nostalgic context, but we should not portray a revisionist history to younger folks and should not fetishize a product that failed for sucking, by-and-large.
- rgoulter 5y ago
  I think WP failed because there weren't enough of the right apps on it.

by bhauer 5y ago

cseleborg 5y ago

Yes, Windows Phone was very cool, the home screen with the tiles was amazingly information-dense. I miss it too (still got the yellow Nokia device in a drawer somewhere...)

Pxtl 5y ago
Best thing about windows phone was how you could bundle together all the social media feeds for a single contact and see them all in one place or see all the social media feeds for all your contacts in a giant list. Using contacts as a shell for various contact information feeds was a brilliant idea and other plarforms should steal it. Let me take Messages and Email off my home screen and give unified feeds in my Contacts.
- DoctorDabadedoo 5y ago
  Yup, loved the home screen, it had the right amount of available information and customization, coming from android back them I was very impressed by how slick the OS felt and how it didn't degrade over time even on entry devices. It was a pity it didn't get enough adoption/users/apps.
rgoulter 5y ago
Three features which I wish were copied from WP: - In the alphabetical lists, you could tap on each letter which would bring up a navigation grid of the letters. This made it really easy to jump to e.g. 't' with two coarse taps (compared to e.g. the fine tap which iOS requires to jump to a letter in the list). - A physical camera button. - The icon toolbars at the bottom of apps could be expanded; this let you see what each button would do without having to click on it or decipher the icon.

mehrdada 5y ago

"Years behind" only if you cherry-pick a few signature features. The primary feature that has to work, that did not on Windows Phone, was having a decent web browser. Trivializing the importance of what iOS did right is understandable in a nostalgic context, but we should not portray a revisionist history to younger folks and should not fetishize a product that failed for sucking, by-and-large.

rgoulter 5y ago
I think WP failed because there weren't enough of the right apps on it.