Sure, why not I guess. I still don't understand why live tiles aren't enough to tell when you have a text, email or missed call though, but whatever. I know some people need a running counter with every damn tweet and facebook friend request registering on it in real time. LOL
I'm happy with the no notification bar/scroll or whatever. If you want it go build an app for it. Why should I have a feature I don't need taking up storage space on my phone? Especially when the home screen tells you everything anyway.
I'm with the no notifications camp. I have all my most used apps pinned to my start screen and I don't miss a beat. I don't see a valid excuse for missing anything. On wp7 I don't have the luxury of all the little tiles so my start screen could be long. On wp8 you can put so much more on the home due to the small tiles yet people still complain of missing notifications! Am I missing something? Do the little tiles not give you a notification counter??
What's so hard to understand about this? If you get a toast notification and the app is not pinned to the homescreen, and you don't look at your phone right away, the notification is gone, forever, as in, you won't know why your phone rang, and never will. This happened to me the other day and I cursed the lack of the notification center. This is the simplest concept and I don't get why WP fanboys say live tiles are the end-all be-all of notifications. They're not. A notification center is absolutely needed on this platform, whether live tile fanboys say so or not.
"but OMGZ pin all your apps to the startz screenZ!" How about no. I don't want my start screen to be a collection of 800 ugly tiles. Some of us prefer to have a simple, non-overwhelming start screen as opposed to a giant cluster-storm of (mostly ugly) tiles.
Also not necessary, but I would be happy to have this if for no other reason, just so people will STFU about it already.
Are you kidding me? The ability to close apps from the multitasking menu is absolutely a needed addition. The fact that you have to tap back 500 times to close open apps is absolutely frustrating/absurdly awkward and a giant deficiency in this OS. And no, the fact that background apps don't "take up memory" is not a valid excuse. The only people that need to STFU are ****** defenders of WP who overlook gaping holes in the OS that would make it more functional and ultimately attract more people to it.
That being said, I would also like to see the following additions to the OS
1) custom audio/data profiles - e.g. work, home, car, meeting, etc. Much more efficient than manually adjusting bluetooth/wifi/data/audio settings one by one multiple times per day.
2) orientation lock
3) ability to organize apps into hubs/folders - the alphabetical list is not robust. Once you get a good amount of apps installed, some very good and useful apps can become forgotten as you'll never scroll by them if you don't remember the name of them. Also, just a list of 50 apps is flat out awkward. Having some ability for organization is a positive thing.
WP8 was a great step forward and I'm looking forward to what MS can push out to make it even more refined, regardless of what rampant ****** defenders of the platform say.