What are “Live Apps” and are they coming to Windows Phone 8?

Live Apps

Are Live Apps just Metro Apps renamed?

Now that some third-party stores are getting their marketing and display setups for the big Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 co-launch at the finish of the calendar month, some new questions are beingness raised.

Commencement and foremost is what are "Live Apps"? The term comes via a display sign that asks users to swipe up, downward, left or correct on the screen to explore them at a Best Buy store. The questions is, nosotros just don't know what they are exactly.

2 possibilities naturally present themselves: this is a new, unannounced feature for Windows Phone 8 or this is only a display-unit addition for demonstrations with no serious implications for the platform. (The tipster who sent the images into Neowin does not believe it'due south a demonstration tool, only rather an actual feature for what it's worth.)

Live Apps

Live Apps are non to be confused with Live Tiles

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If we explore the start possibility, the i that we're certain all of you are now entertaining, what could "Alive Apps" mean?

Well, they are not Live Tiles as there is some other display that specifically mentions that characteristic, then no, they are not confused. Instead, Windows Phone viii may have the same app swapping feature that Windows 8 has i.e. when y'all gesture by dragging from the left you tin bring upwardly your concluding app. Or it may merely be a way to see notifications/impending app changes or some new way of multi-tasking.

On the other hand, this could only be a renaming of "Metro apps" to "Live apps" (we judge "Windows eight style apps" is just too long, eh?). Personally, we're leaning on this idea.

It's evidently manner too early on to tell then we'll just accept to look a few more than weeks to detect out. Have a theory? Audio off in comments.

Source: Neowin; Thanks, Kitt S., for the tip