N_LaRUE
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re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
Um, MS stole the Hub concept from iOS... Including the restrictive nature. MS was pretty much trying to capture the iOS crowd. It was trying to directly compete with Apple, not Android. Failing that they have since realised that low-end hardware and emerging markets are the only people interested in their stuff mostly due to Nokia. They came close to losing that market until they fixed their SD card mess up and also instigated the explorer option, which people are still unhappy with.
Anyway, the whole 'uniqueness' is slowly being drained away from WP and we'll soon have a flat tile interface with no live tiles because everyone couldn't understand the live tile thing and wanted a notification centre instead.
I bought a Windows phone because I like that it has a creativity element, something which nobody has done before-flat UI, live tiles instead of static icons, in fact, completely different from any OS I've seen before. I would award full marks to MS for creativity. Only a truly brainy person could have come up with such a concept. Now Apple and Google ate also trying to copy MS by removing reflections, and making the UI flatter. Even the IOS 7 task manager and calling screen looks very much like the WP version. I also like the concept of hubs, which is again something very different and not tried before by anyone else. Windows Phone is something original and creative, not something that is a refined Symbian look alike made for touch screens(IOS 7 and Android).
Um, MS stole the Hub concept from iOS... Including the restrictive nature. MS was pretty much trying to capture the iOS crowd. It was trying to directly compete with Apple, not Android. Failing that they have since realised that low-end hardware and emerging markets are the only people interested in their stuff mostly due to Nokia. They came close to losing that market until they fixed their SD card mess up and also instigated the explorer option, which people are still unhappy with.
Anyway, the whole 'uniqueness' is slowly being drained away from WP and we'll soon have a flat tile interface with no live tiles because everyone couldn't understand the live tile thing and wanted a notification centre instead.