TechFreak1
Moderator
Mobile websites shouldn't be the model for OS UI design. Also doing things differently doesn't have to mean doing it stupidly. I can understand that MS is desperate to get the ball rolling with WP/Mobile/whatever adoption but throwing away most of what is good about WP for bad designs isn't likely to change things. If anything it's just ticking off the current users who came to the platform because they liked the uniqueness and user friendliness of WP. We've lost the hubs, the stylish typography, the panoramic apps and now one handed use. A Google-less Android clone with tiles just isn't exciting to me.
Of course it isn't, it's the familiarity of design between what's out there and their own apps on other platforms.
I feel by doing this Microsoft is hoping they have found a winning formula as lets face it what are the alternatives?
Microsoft releasing android phones? :grincry:
Or carry on doing what they were doing and maybe it will catch on but after several years of trying the same thing it hasn't so what do you do?
There is always an element of risk in anything you do as things can easily go side ways.
It's not about what you, I, or the current minority of users like (in comparison to the number of ios & android users, we are a minority). It's about appealing to mass audience and selling phones.
However there-in lies the problem, how do you a) get over the stigma of sales reps b) stop the carriers from hampering the sales of devices c) relay a consistent message across the board for developers, which far from consistent - Microsoft used their own tools to develop apps, whereas developers had a different set however with Windows 10 they are using the same tools as developers (source MJF - windows weekly).
Time will tell if they had found the winning formula or not, personally I feel that if they took the best bits out of WP10 and mixed it with WP8.1 they would have had a pretty solid product.
But let's not forget, phone is still in preview.