that look like Windows Phone / 8 "Metro Style",
and can be viewed from iPhone, Android, iPod Touch...
Is "Metro" really so good? It depends...
In some cases it could reduce number of "clicks/taps" to get the info.
Since Apple is already moving from GUI to Voice, the game is changing again...
XBOX is also getting Metro-Style Interface...
Xbox Update Adds Metro Interface, Cloud and Windows Phone App
Metro (design language) @ Wikipedia
Microsoft's design team says that the Metro UI is partly inspired by signs commonly found at public transport systems, for instance on the King County Metro Transit[5], a public transit system that serves the Seattle metropolitan area where Microsoft is headquartered. Metro places a large focus on typography and has large text that catches the eye. Microsoft says that Metro is designed to be "sleek, quick, modern" and a "refresh" from the icon-based interfaces of Android and iOS
The Metro design language was designed specifically to consolidate groups of common tasks to speed up usage. This is accomplished by excluding superfluous graphics and instead relying on the actual content to also function as the main UI. The resulting interfaces favour larger hubs over smaller buttons and often feature laterally scrolling full bleed canvases. Page titles are usually large and consequently also take advantage of lateral scrolling
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