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The iPhone home screen performs the same function as the Windows Start menu.

A news widget on one is the same as a news widget on the other.




Swiping away (to the right) from the Home Screen, will take you to the widget area from which you can immediately remove the news widget with two or so taps, and that setting will get preserved. So not really the same as pressing start to search for an app to launch. I think in your example the equivalent would be going to the iOS App Library list and then seeing ads and widgets there, which does not happen.


You have to open the widget board on Windows to be shown the news widget that the OP was talking about. There's separate Start and widget board buttons in the taskbar.


Smartphones are not desktop computers and they behave differently.

That a smartphone comes preloaded with some news app is not unexpected behavior. That a desktop operating system is not "clean" from first install is absolutely not acceptable.




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