I'm still dismayed at how Windows Phone fizzled the way it did, and I've been an Apple user for three decades now. The Metro UI was one of the more innovative U

I'm still dismayed at how Windows Phone fizzled the way it did, and I've been an Apple user for three decades now. The Metro UI was one of the more innovative UI approaches I've seen—from anyone, and definitely from Microsoft. I remember looking at the Zune and thinking, huh, this is not the "Windows attempt at an iPod" that I was expecting. I probably wouldn't ever have bought one, but Windows Phone was not, for once, a mere iOS clone, and I respect that.