Windows Phone Marketshare grows in almost every country

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Akvod said:

But the point of the docks with iOS and Android is that they stay with you no matter how much you scroll horizontally (or vertically in WP's case).

Another gripe I have is that whereas with the iOS you swipe through fixed pages of apps, you progressively scroll seamlessly through WP. Now, seamless sounds like a really nice word, but it sucks because it makes it hard to orient yourself and everything is always in a different position. 

It's also just not the tile size and color. It's the fucking little things like how close everything is, the flat design that makes it hard to instantly distinguish one app from another (and ew, that fucking photo background thing).

 

The thing about UI's is that it shouldn't be about how much of a "Power" user you are. UI's are supposed to be as unconscious as possible. They're not supposed to fucking be at the forefront of your attention (now that I think about it, that might be one of the fundamental reason why iOS is so bad. It was created and designed to BE at the center of attention. To be eye catching.) UI's are supposed to naturally guide a person and assist them do what they want. A UI's a fucking failure if your grandma can't use it. If a cat can use your iOS, it's a success.

The search thing is fucking stupid. The 80/20 rule. 80% of things you do are done with 20% of things. That's why you have top menus with the most used functions. That's why the Start Menu had your most used apps instantly there in a small isolated group, rather than in a sea of similar looking icons.

I guess my biggest fucking gripe with flat design is that a big part of design is creating visual HIERARCHY. Again, back to the 80/20 rule. SOME THINGS ARE IMPORTANT, OTHER THINGS AREN'T. How the fuck are you supposed to do that by making everything look the same?!?!?!

It's just really frusturating with both WP and iOS when it seems like the people who designed them put no fucking care in usability, and selfishely chose style.

Why so much swearing? Microsoft hasn't taken anything away from you, don't like the UI? That's great, you have other choices, which is a good thing about competition.
Millions of other people don't find what you're claiming to be much of an issue at all.
Microsoft tried to be different with "metro". - It's surprising how many people don't like change and instead wan't everything to be clones of each other.

I find it seamless, my grandmother finds it seamless, that's good enough for my use case scenario's. - Everyone is differen't.

Akvod said:

Is that by Microsoft? It looks like it's from Samsung. And why isn't it pre-installed? To me, 3'rd party apps are no excuse for having a bad UI.

And yes it is by Samsung, but that shouldn't matter, you got the functionality right there, just a single download away.
One thing I do like about my Windows Phone is how awesome Nokia's camera's are. (for a phone)

The only *real* bad side for me personally is battery life, I only get a half day of heavy use out of it, but that's expected when I'm doing remote desktops to PC's across the nation.
The UI though, I like, it's slick and responsive, no stutters, pauses and is extremely fluid, everything I need is on the start screen without any scrolling and all the information I need is on the glance screen. - Everyone is different, you think it's bad? That's great, you're entitled to that opinion.

I personally think iOS and Android's UI's looks dated and archaic, essentially playing homage to the 90's with their "Icons".