The Skype app's UI is trash and offers very little capability that the iOS and Android versions have. I have run into more issues with the Quik app than any app I ever used on the platform (ie Camera doesn't work, recommends a shut down of the OS to get the app working. It is embarrassing to me as I expect the experience to be superb on WP. It is designed as an iOS app and it performs like utter crap on the WP platform. The design elements are very iOS and Android centric. It's okay that they do that but you would expect after this time Skype would be inherently built into the OS at a deep level. It's because the Skype team was bought in they have focused on UI design on iOS and Android. Skype is an absolutely notoriously designed UI. I would really like it if Skype was rewritten in WinRT since it's faster. I also think Skype should use a splashscreen. Could this be further streamlined? Probably, but age has little to nothing to do with complexity or load time of an app. Not having worked on Skype, I can only attribute it's longer cold start up time to proprietary libraries (for video/audio compression) and/or initial app processes (signing in, loading contacts list, server calls for data sync). I can imaging Fantasia not requiring that much to load up initially so cold start up time is predictably probably better than Skype's.

On higher end devices, the calendar apps loads so quickly that it's normally only visible for less than a second.

The calendar app is written in the newer WinRT framework which requires splashscreens. These apps do not require a splashscreen. To clear things up, let me explain from a technical stand point why these cases happen:īoth Skype and Fantasia are written in the older Silverlight app framework.

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