Monday, May 29, 2023

Praising Microsoft Windows Phone Even Years After Burying It - IMRAN™ I saw this fun meme from Windows Central and had to comment. It’s my personal opinion, unrelated to my working at the tech giant. I am a big Apple user (and was a Windows-hater until W7 came out) since 1980s, having bought ALL major models of Macs & iPhones. I started working at Microsoft 11 years ago. I honestly tell people that my still-working (sadly only as a wifi-gadget now) WindowsPhone Lumia 1020 still has a superior UI/UX to iOS 16 or 160 for that matter. The way iOS has not changed the useless icon grid display UI since it launched, who knows when Apple will innovate in Ui and UX again. My decade-old WP displayed constantly updating LiveTiles. They showed different sized CUSTOMIZABLE grid-boxes with office/boss email, personal email, messages, photos, weather, headline news, photo album, stocks, whatever I chose. It did that nonstop. No touch needed. No action needed. My maybe $1600 iPhone 14 Pro Max is still a primitive clunker in comparison. “Oh look, there are 7 apps’ icons showing message counts… but I have to tap each one every time all day to see if anything is important.” © 2023 IMRAN™Praising Microsoft Windows Phone Even Years After Burying It - IMRAN™ I saw this fun meme from Windows Central and had to comment. It’s my personal opinion, unrelated to my working at the tech giant. I am a big Apple user (and was a Windows-hater until W7 came out) since 1980s, having bought ALL major models of Macs & iPhones. I started working at Microsoft 11 years ago. I honestly tell people that my still-working (sadly only as a wifi-gadget now) WindowsPhone Lumia 1020 still has a superior UI/UX to iOS 16 or 160 for that matter. The way iOS has not changed the useless icon grid display UI since it launched, who knows when Apple will innovate in Ui and UX again. My decade-old WP displayed constantly updating LiveTiles. They showed different sized CUSTOMIZABLE grid-boxes with office/boss email, personal email, messages, photos, weather, headline news, photo album, stocks, whatever I chose. It did that nonstop. No touch needed. No action needed. My maybe $1600 iPhone 14 Pro Max is still a primitive clunker in comparison. “Oh look, there are 7 apps’ icons showing message counts… but I have to tap each one every time all day to see if anything is important.” © 2023 IMRAN™


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