From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 1 Nov 2025 13:04:03 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > But there were actually people that liked [Windows Phone].   
   >   
   > A phone UI works better on a phone than on a desktop.   
      
   It didn’t even work well there.   
      
   Microsoft had a clever idea in “tiles”, which were like a cross between   
   regular “icons” and actual content-showing “windows”. But as happens   
   all   
   too commonly with them, they botched the execution.   
      
   I remember a clip of a Nokia executive demonstrating one of their new   
   models. The screen had these “tiles” as usual, and as the exec talked,   
   every now and then one of them (the mail app, I particularly remember)   
   would do a backflip or some such animation.   
      
   That’s one way for an app to draw attention to itself, if it needs user   
   attention. Trouble is, the mail app was doing this animation *even when no   
   new messages had come in*. So it was just a gratuitous animation, serving   
   no purpose.   
      
   That kind of thing, plus all the limitations in OS functionality, just put   
   the users off.   
      
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