Window (ungrouped) names in Mission Control

I know that the if you have the Mission Control preference set to "grouped windows", the application name is shown under each window when you look at all applications. I also know that when you focus on a specific application in Mission Control (MC), the windows associated with that application are all appropriately named under the thumbnails. But what I don't see in Mountain Lion is if you have MC set to "ungrouped windows", there are no names under the thumbnails, e.g. names of my multiple Pages or Word files. Instead, I have to click the space bar while hovering over the window to see what is in each of them. The naming of all of the windows in Expose was really useful. Is there any way to get that back?
I have a feeling that in their move to make "one system" for desktops and mobile devices, apple has decided that the names would be too small. Well, I still like to use a real computer  ---- OK, I am off my soapbox.
Nick

It seems to me to be the opposite of what you describe wrt to grouped vs ungrouped.
However, if you go to App Exposé instead of Mission Control, you see the names under the windows.
Now, where is the function in iOS that shows all the open applications at once?

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