In any other Twitter app, I can go back 8-12 hours with no problems to see where I’d left off the previous day. In the morning, I’ll scroll back though my Twitter feed to see what I’ve missed. I was delighted to hear that MetroTwit would have a multi-column Windows Store App. The desktop app sucks on a touch UI, being sluggish, and it’s a resource hog on my Atom tablet. It became my TweetDeck replacement after Twitter decided to geld their new acquisition. MetroTwit was the app of choice on the PC. I call for the death sentence for MetroTwit, your honour. MetroTwit (a hardened villain, your honour) falls into this bucket. If I browse back to the main page in People and back into What’s New then the new posts appear. But what if I double check? If I open the Facebook website I’ll find newer posts. I come back to People a while later and there’s no new posts. Maybe I’ll open IE via a link to read something. Why don’t I use People? When I browse into What’s New, there’s a wait for it to load. Instead I have Facebook open in IE (Metro) and Tweetdeck open in Chrome. It should be the app I use the most on my Windows 8 tablet. What I like about this app is the potential: aggregate all of your various social networks and contacts into a design-for-touch UI. ![]() Standing in the dock now … is the built-in People app. It Just Doesn’t Refresh Like It’s Supposed To Want to see how to get this right? Have a look at Appy Geek, an IT news aggregator. I don’t know how they operate under the hood, but they appear as if each box is an RSS entry from the original website. I’m only presenting The Register because it’s the only one of these that I have installed. This is almost every information app in the Windows Store. Their Windows Store App “effort” shows just how little they care. Yes, I am aware that Twitter now owns Tweetdeck. The user doesn’t switch between single columns that waste 75% of the screen. Notice how the various columns are right there, for the user. What should a Twitter app look like? Your honour, please turn your eyes towards the Tweetdeck app running in the Chrome browser. Seriously? That’s the best that Twitter can do? Please don’t bother informing me about the various other Twitter apps. I have a column of information that is around 25% of the total real estate. Netflix is a superb implementation, with smooth animation that puts the website to shame.Įxhibit A, your honour, is Twitter’s brand new app. Star Chart uses the entire screen to allow you to explore the cosmos. ![]() News is presented in text/image, recorded video clips, and a live feed from the Sky News channel. Once again, you use touch in a screen filled interface. It’s not easy praising something that is owned by Rupert Murdoch, but the Sky News (UK) app is a very good news app. ![]() There are some, like Nightmares From The Deep that are very pretty, and Hydro Thunder Hurricane that has console quality graphics (but at a steep price). And it looks amazing on a 27” touch screenĪrmed happens to be another great example of how to get this right. It makes use of touch for interacting with the shark and scrolling the multi-sized bath tubs. My colleague uninstalled it from her machine because it was too addictive. You stretch a rubber shark to fire him around the bath tub, with a primary mission of eating the rubber duckies and a secondary mission of collecting the coins. This is the one app that I have pad for in the Windows Store. And the apps in the store sure don’t give us much to hope for. The built-in apps in Windows 8 don’t help the cause. Lack of device availability (seems OK in the USA now, but still not great here) by the OEMs hasn’t helped. Retailers are more interested in what Android devices they can stock than in what Windows 8 devices are on tap. The media are relishing in hammering Windows 8 on a daily basis. But marketing fluff aside, it’s struggling.
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