They take up a lot more screen space. Netflix is a clear example of this problem, sure showing pictures is nice, but scrolling 3 pages to the right just to look at a list is annoying.
The 'real' advantage is displaying status information, but most applications like calculator / Photoshop / Skyrim don't have status information. Further many things like weather might seem like the current status are useful, but knowing the current temperature outside or a what the stock price was 15 minutes ago is generally fairly useless and wastes screen space.
Consider, the screen shots showing the current user's name. Unless I forgot my name I can't think why displaying it is helpful.
PS: Don't get me wrong having a sperate 'tile' menue that's differnt from the start menue like a personal home page might be useful. But, I suspect it would rarely be opened by most people.
So make them smaller, or remove the tiles you don't use often. Did they remove those options in 10?
>but most applications like calculator / Photoshop / Skyrim don't have status information.
So don't put them on your start page
>scrolling 3 pages to the right just to look at a list is annoying.
From what I've read, this isn't the intended use case. The idea is to set up the start page like, as you put it, a personal home page. That's what it's for. The all apps screen is the one with everything on it (extant 512 app limit bug notwithstanding).
>current temperature outside or a what the stock price was 15 minutes ago is generally fairly useless and wastes screen space.
>Unless I forgot my name I can't think why displaying it is helpful.
In any case it's no worse that the old start menus that did exactly the same thing.
Between icons on the desktop, pinned programs on the taskbar, pinned programs on the start page, the all programs page, and typing to search all programs when on the start page, you'd think everyone would be able to work out a balance that fits their usage pattern.
So make them ... Forcing me to curate a list is a usability failure. I can pin things just fine, what I need is a reasonable default to find programs I have not used in 6 months.
So don't put them on your start page. The point is fast access, anything getting in the way of that is a huge failure.
isn't the intended use case. Several MS videos show people scrolling though tiles on their phone so it is expected behavior. Even though paging allows for much faster access to large lists.
The 'real' advantage is displaying status information, but most applications like calculator / Photoshop / Skyrim don't have status information. Further many things like weather might seem like the current status are useful, but knowing the current temperature outside or a what the stock price was 15 minutes ago is generally fairly useless and wastes screen space.
Consider, the screen shots showing the current user's name. Unless I forgot my name I can't think why displaying it is helpful.
PS: Don't get me wrong having a sperate 'tile' menue that's differnt from the start menue like a personal home page might be useful. But, I suspect it would rarely be opened by most people.