Post #1434069
2026-02-17 00:40 UTC
@MrDOS They’ll probably never live this one down I fear, they went too hard on trying to copy the iPhone/iPad playbook without any of the appeal or novelty that made the App Store explode into success, and that reputation’s stuck with it despite doing a full 180 away from being a walled garden of locked down tablet apps.
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@kirb@hachyderm.io 2026-02-17 00:42
@MrDOS See also https://hachyderm.io/@kirb/116024056265798939
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@MrDOS@hachyderm.io 2026-02-17 00:46
@kirb Not like the current implementation doesn't also have problems. I invite you to try doing Store updates on a brand-new, out-of-box copy of Windows 11 on a low-spec machine on poor Internet some time. It'll chug for minutes just trying to figure out what it wants to do, and once it does finally start updating, woe betide you should you decide you want to postpone any of the specific updates – the buttons click, but they do nothing. It's my third favourite example of modern Windows UX rot (after Calculator taking multiple seconds to open on a cold boot, and... whatever's going on with Notepad these days).