THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Tasty on July 11, 2017, 12:49:11 PM
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Speaking of smartphones: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/11/15952654/microsoft-windows-phone-end-of-support
MCD am cry. :usacry (Where is he, anyways?)
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Writing was on the wall when they brought their services to iOS and Android. I wish they would have put up a real fight, because they were the closest competitor to Apple's amazing software. Android is lazy and shitty and gets worse and worse over time.
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Wow, I'm sorry to all those five people using a Windows phone.
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Android is lazy and shitty and gets worse and worse over time.
Maybe if you have a Samsung. :yuck
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:lol
Well you got me there
Samsung is shitting up the Android marketplace. I still argue that Google hasn't done enough to fix their platform.
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:lol
Well you got me there
Samsung is shitting up the Android marketplace. I still argue that Google hasn't done enough to fix their platform.
Wait for Andromeda. :rejoice
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It sucks because Windows Phone had by far the superior aesthetic. iPhone has been merely good. Android has always been trash.
For once I agree with you
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i had one windows phone and i really liked it but then my carrier stopped supporting winphone so i had to give it up when i wanted another phone. too bad, cause it was a solid os and i really liked the devices
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wait this isn't a dead thread revival?
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It sucks because Windows Phone had by far the superior aesthetic. iPhone has been merely good. Android has always been trash.
he's right you know
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wait this isn't a dead thread revival?
yeaj i thought inmade this a few years back :lol
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nxt is xbox
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It sucks because Windows Phone had by far the superior aesthetic. iPhone has been merely good. Android has always been trash.
he's right you know
Material Design :aah
Windows Aero-Style Trash :kobeyuck
The iOS 11 Control Center :rofl
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I still use a Lumia 640 :yeshrug
it's getting increasingly janky over time, headline is misleading as this article is just about the end of support for older versions of the OS though.
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I'm talking about iOS 7+.
(https://i.stack.imgur.com/RKsfvl.jpg) (http://www.cydiaos.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/AERO2.jpg)
(https://media.tenor.com/images/bd4ec1bc7d7fd1fa1959cc1cc015d4d3/tenor.gif)
Windows Phone used Metro, which was completely flat and highly typography-based (stemming from it being an evolution of the Zune HD's UI, which was great.)
Material Design shares some traits like an emphasis on digital authenticism vs. skeuomorphism and a rejection of gradients in favor of solid colors, but the similarities end there. Drop shadows separate various layers of the UI and Material Design highly stresses motion design as a core tenet.
(https://thomas.vanhoutte.be/miniblog/wp-content/uploads/alarm_material_ui.gif)
MD is also more icon-based (vs. Metro's typography and tiles), but only to an extent (and doesn't get nearly as absurd as iOS 11's impenetrable Control Center (http://cdn.iphonehacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/iOS-11-Control-Center-customized.jpeg).) MD apps are structured around a header, hamburger menu, tabs, and the floating action button - the latter of which gives users immediate and prominent access to the current screen's most-useful function.
(https://i.imgur.com/SYYR6fUl.png)
I encourage you to read the Material Design Guidelines (https://material.io/guidelines/), which are comprehensive, consistent, and beautiful.
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(https://media1.giphy.com/media/xebGMlhSxrIFG/giphy.gif)
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Thankfully I'm on the officially superior Windows 10 for my phone.
:-\
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Found the OS quite pleasing aesthetically. Certainly more than IOS or Anrdoid. Too bad the rest kinda sucked.
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Still can't get over how well the music service and OS were integrated. Being on Android has been a huge downgrade in this regard. Google Music is a POS as far as functionality and UI.
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Still can't get over how well the music service and OS were integrated. Being on Android has been a huge downgrade in this regard. Google Music is a POS as far as functionality and UI.
I still use windows phone for work. Its a POS.