Have been following the Windows 10 on phones discussions and the OS changes and increasingly it feels to me that what made Windows Phone 7and 8.1 so special and different is now gone.
It looks and feels like any other common Mobile OS. That special something that WP 7had and continued a bit in WP 8 seems to be missing.
In fact Paul Thurrott a long time fan and critic of Windows Phone sums it up pretty well
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/win...later-full-retreat-made-windows-phone-special.
A few of the original WP 7 ideas now gone...
- from a single interface you could post to multiple online services all at once
- when you tapped the People tile, you would see the Recent view, which was a group of tiles representing recently-accessed contacts
- In Windows Phone 7, search was context-sensitive. That is, when you pressed the hardware Search button, you would search within whatever app or experience you were currently using.
- With Windows Phone 7 Series, all of your photos?from your phone, PC and the web?would be ?organized in one place,? the Photos hub.
- ?hardware consistency is key? and that the only differentiation in Windows Phone would occur ?via apps.?
Many of the changes are welcome changes as it felt like shortcomings on WP 7, but some very basic essence of WP has also changes and that takes away from the OS 's standout features. Now it increasingly feels and does what iOS or Android have been doing.
It looks and feels like any other common Mobile OS. That special something that WP 7had and continued a bit in WP 8 seems to be missing.
In fact Paul Thurrott a long time fan and critic of Windows Phone sums it up pretty well
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/win...later-full-retreat-made-windows-phone-special.
A few of the original WP 7 ideas now gone...
- from a single interface you could post to multiple online services all at once
- when you tapped the People tile, you would see the Recent view, which was a group of tiles representing recently-accessed contacts
- In Windows Phone 7, search was context-sensitive. That is, when you pressed the hardware Search button, you would search within whatever app or experience you were currently using.
- With Windows Phone 7 Series, all of your photos?from your phone, PC and the web?would be ?organized in one place,? the Photos hub.
- ?hardware consistency is key? and that the only differentiation in Windows Phone would occur ?via apps.?
Many of the changes are welcome changes as it felt like shortcomings on WP 7, but some very basic essence of WP has also changes and that takes away from the OS 's standout features. Now it increasingly feels and does what iOS or Android have been doing.