Anyone else seen this?
Thurrott wants Windows Phone 8 start screen to scroll horizontally | WMPoweruser
Now, putting my cards on the table, I think Thurrott is a poor writer anyway. He blatantly writes troll pieces designed to annoy (and get hits from) Apple fans, Android fans, PS3 fans, Wii fans - basically, any Microsoft tech gets the easiest of easy rides and everything else gets raked over the coals. He's like a ****** given the ultimate reward - being paid to write ****** articles - and his idea of being objective is buying a competitor's product to slate it.
However, I think he outdoes himself here by simply not getting what makes WP7 good at all - elegance and simplicity. If MS made WP8 into basically Windows 8 as he suggests, I'd ditch it like it was on fire. I don't even have 30 apps on my phone, and I'd have to scroll through screens and screens of stuff to find what I want. What works on a tablet/on a desktop doesn't work on a smaller screen because it's a smaller screen.
Would you want what he thinks is the way to go?
Thurrott wants Windows Phone 8 start screen to scroll horizontally | WMPoweruser
Now, putting my cards on the table, I think Thurrott is a poor writer anyway. He blatantly writes troll pieces designed to annoy (and get hits from) Apple fans, Android fans, PS3 fans, Wii fans - basically, any Microsoft tech gets the easiest of easy rides and everything else gets raked over the coals. He's like a ****** given the ultimate reward - being paid to write ****** articles - and his idea of being objective is buying a competitor's product to slate it.
However, I think he outdoes himself here by simply not getting what makes WP7 good at all - elegance and simplicity. If MS made WP8 into basically Windows 8 as he suggests, I'd ditch it like it was on fire. I don't even have 30 apps on my phone, and I'd have to scroll through screens and screens of stuff to find what I want. What works on a tablet/on a desktop doesn't work on a smaller screen because it's a smaller screen.
Would you want what he thinks is the way to go?