From Entrepreneur:
Steve Jobs famously snubbed the lowly stylus. He was a fingers man.
“Who wants a stylus?” Jobs asked sarcastically when he introduced the world’s first iPhone at Macworld 2007. “You have to get ‘em and put ‘em away and you lose ‘em and -- yech!” Nobody wants a stylus. So, let’s not use a stylus.”
Personally I think team "consistent experience" won. They need WP10 to behave like Win10 so Windows users get a single UI language. The alternative is to bring pivots yo the desktop, but that might not work well. I do think pivots were awesome though.![]()
Sadly, that is the case. They gave it a good effort, but people WANT features, and with features come compromises.
It still looks distinctly WP overall though. You won't mistake it for any other phone in the OS part. But the apps are losing their distictive UI rules.
No. That is the bottom command bar. This is the pivot:ok when we say PIVOTS are we referring to the 4 bottom nav buttons that used to be present everywhere during the the wp7 days that are slowly being eradicated? because yes I miss pivots too and the ellipses that went along with it, sometimes I wonder what happened to the wp7 design team, did they take them all to the back and shoot them?
I don't know why MS decided to drop the pivot. I have a few hunches, but this "consistent experience" argument definitely isn't one of them. It also strikes me as somewhat ironic, considering how inconsistent the UI currently appears.
Consistency and conventions are important, but providing the best ui for the form factor is also important.
A familiar and delightful UI that makes the product more attractive in the stores is important, bur ergonomics and efficiency in daily use is also important.
There is no correct UI, MS has to find a balance of objectives with trade offs. Some apps will have tabs(pivots), other apps like the Photos app shouldn't because the functions in the hamburger menu aren't frequently used. So, don't get to far into conclusions with one app.
IMO, Metro was a total failure because It was an extreme.
how many occasion one uses one hand on their phone...if I am not driving then I still used 2 hand to work on my phone....
I don't know if he was targeting WM with that statement, but a stylus was necessary with WM devices, at least the ones I had. They barely worked without a stylus.
1) Pivoting brings an awkward experience on the Desktop and MSFT wants users to WANT to use WinRT apps on non-touch devices.
2) No way to implement the popular "swipe to delete/archive" type actions with pivoting.
3) Easier porting of apps from Android and iOS with fewer UI design changes.
Yes it is. That's also not what anybody but the most superficial of critics are saying. It's completely besides the point.To say they're making winphone just like Android simply because of a button is ludicrous
'Albums' is the function of Photos app that I use daily. And it is inside hamburger. Don't blame Metro for the failure. It was lack of features and apps and not the Metro. Metro was well received, and as far as I remember no web site actually said Metro was failure. Metro was well received by major tech sites and many persons, and hated only by those Android and Apple fanboys whom will never buy WP whatever we do because they love their OS so much.