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Discussion on: What great software invention or idea never gained adoption?

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Raphael Habereder • Edited

I'll be the one and say I loved windows on the lumia phones. Man what a pleasure the UX was to me. I really liked the tiles and the plethora of information you could get, just by staring at your screen long enough.
No tapping, swiping, nothing was needed, once you configured your tiles to fit your needs.

I do hope MS brings it back one day. I think it was just too different for most people to get widely adopted.

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borisv • Edited

Absolutely YES, I had it on a 1020 and still I am looking back at it when swiping and gesturing around with Android on an Xperia or something like that. They were ahead of the times in terms of simplicity and effectiveness, but no one noticed(((. Well, maybe there were economic reasons too)))