@wrangleroooo: In the future you should do research before you comment, to avoid looking completely bias against Microsoft. The Windows Phone Home Screen is fully customisable by the user, who can remove any and every tile and add any app they like from the app list.
@feelingboy77 Interesting Fact: There were no vowels in the word of 'Jehovah.' The consonants of that word are like Yahweh. The people of that time pronounce it adonai which means 'the Lord.'
When the scolars invented the marks for vowels and added them in the Bible, they had faced great difficu...
BTW the squiggly line is called the tilde key The tilde is colloquially known as 'squiggle'. "It was originally written over a letter as a mark of abbreviation, but has since acquired a number of other uses as a diacritic mark or a character in its own right." Wikipedia.
@esKay1394 Windows Phone allows you to customise the background to either black or white as well as change the tile colors.