I hate sounding like the old guy in the room when I say things like "phone design used to be more fun". I mean, I AM the old guy in the room, but I hate SOUNDING like the old guy complaining about new tech.
Frosted gradients. Laser etched glossy. Bold primary color polycarb. Metal and leather. Different form factors and features... Sigh...
Before falling asleep last night I figured out how to make tiles slide around when in edit mode like #WindowsPhone, so I just implemented it. It's pretty cool I think.
Ever wondered what it would be like to run Windows Phone on a laptop? Now you don't have to wonder, as somebody did it, on a MacBook no less! #windowsphone
Remember a few weeks back when I said no one appreciates people that file bugs. Well as we tiptoe closer to the #Thunderbird for #Android release, I look at the visionary that filed the initial bug bringing up the idea 12 years ago when most people floating around #Mozilla wanted a #WindowsPhone version to run on #PDAs. That youn... old hero won't get any credit or acknowledgement, but to someone, somewhere, they matter!
What Satya fails to speak plainly here is that he's an idiot who handed two of the largest platform ecosystems, mobile and the web, to their competitor, for free. Switching Edge to Chromium and Surface phones to Android was a colossal blunder that will be taught in business books for decades to come.
@SwiftOnSecurity I loved #windowsphone. Awesome, modern and consistent UI. Tiles were something unique since they combined widgets and icons. It is a shame that we’re left with Android and iOS duopoly now.
Vor 10 Jahren: Microsoft übernimmt Nokias Handysparte
Am 3. September 2013 kündigt Microsoft die Übernahme von Nokias Kerngeschäft an. Es folgt ein Milliarden-Desaster, das abertausende Menschen den Job kostet.
"Hey boss! I finished that editorial about Microsoft reporting a healthy Q2 in their last earnings call. What thumbnail should we use?"
"I dunno. I'll troll our archives for photos of Microsoft products. No worries..."
The clumsy dual Mastodon/Twitter client Flantter, which still works, appears to have been removed from the Windows Store. This means if you don't already have it on your Windows Phone, you're screwed.