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Varies a lot by form factor - my experience with Metro apps on touch devices has been amazing. On desktops, I rarely have a reason to use them - except for runn
by Aaronontheweb 13y ago
Varies a lot by form factor - my experience with Metro apps on touch devices has been amazing. On desktops, I rarely have a reason to use them - except for running a full-screen Kindle / Netflix app on an additional monitor.
FWIW, iOS7 and the latest Android UI actually borrow a lot from the Windows Phone flavor of metro pretty heavily. The context switching between apps on iOS7 is identical to what MSFT introduced in WP7.1 (Mango.)
- jccalhoun 13y agoI agree. On my (non-touch screen) laptop I hardly ever use the metro apps. I like win8 but I just go to the desktop practically every time. There just aren't any metro apps worth using right now (I basically only use this laptop when i'm in front of my netflix-capable tv)
- Aaronontheweb 13y agoDecent Metro Apps: I recommend ReddHub - it's a pretty slick Reddit client for the Windows Store. I use it on my Surface RT all the time.
- ibrahima 13y agoThis is exactly my experience, including the full screen Kindle and Netflix apps - they're pretty handy! I think on the whole it's a good thing that they're experimenting radically with the UI design, because it's been stagnant for ages and I feel that mobile UI paradigms, while not appropriate for every application, can really be much more intuitive and faster for certain applications. For example, I'd much rather browse Twitter or Facebook on my phone than from the web interface on my computer.